Treason

3.31The Forfeiture Act 1870 provides that anyone convicted of treason shall be disqualified for sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Lords until they have either completed their term of imprisonment or received a pardon.1

Footnotes

  1. 1. In 1919, following a report by a Committee of the Privy Council appointed under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, two peers who during the First World War had ‘adhered to His Majesty's enemies’ were, in accordance with that Act, deprived of the right to receive writs of summons or to sit in the House of Lords, and of their privileges and rights to any dignity or title (LJ (1919) 107).