Life Peerages Act 1958

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The Life Peerages Act of 1958 regulates the elevation of a person to personal nobility in Great Britain .

The law created the legal basis for the appointment of a life peer , which is still valid today . The status of the Life Peer already existed before this law, so the Lord Judges (Law Lords) were since 1876 under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life Peers members of the House of Lords . Life peers were created by various rulers before this law, but they never took a seat in the House of Lords.

A Life Peer has a seat in the House of Lords and is appointed by the monarch on the proposal of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister can thus influence the composition of the House of Lords.

A major change in the previous composition of the House of Lords was that women could now also be accepted into the House of Lords as life peers.

Another change brought about by the law was that former prime ministers are no longer generally elevated to the hereditary nobility of Earl or Viscount , but are appointed as barons like all other life peers .

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  1. ↑ Harold Macmillan was proposed and raised as Earl by Margaret Thatcher as the last Prime Minister

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