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BANKRUPTCY DISQUALIFICATION ACT 1871 - SECT 4

Restitution of peer to privileges on determination of bankruptcy.

4. A peer who has become a bankrupt, in the event of his bankruptcy being
determined as herein-after mentioned, shall from and after the date of such
determination, if otherwise entitled, be qualified to sit and vote in the
House of Lords, or in any Committee thereof, ....

For the purposes of this Act, a bankruptcy shall be deemed to be determined,

As to ... Ireland

Where an order has been made adjudging a peer to be a bankrupt, if such order
is annulled on the ground that the person against whom the order is made ought
never to have been adjudged a bankrupt.

...

Also as to the United Kingdom

Where such bankrupt has been duly discharged, either by actual payment or
satisfaction, or in the mode prescribed by the respective statutes in force in
that behalf, from all debts and liabilities due at his bankruptcy from which
he can be so discharged; and when he shall further satisfy the House that he
is also discharged from the debts and liabilities (if any) to which he was
liable at the date of his bankruptcy, and which are specially excepted from
the operation of his discharge under the said statutes.

S.5 rep. by SL(R) 1973


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