PEERESSES’ RIGHTS
SEX DISQU ALIFICATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 27. Details are published as to tho adverse decision of the Committee on Privilege, which re-heard Lady Rhondda’s claim to sit in tho House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, on behalf of tho majority of eight of the Committee, in outlining the reasons for rejecting her claim, said: —‘‘The holder of a peerage who is a minor, is not entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but in time might grow entitled, and a felon or -a bankrupt might receive pardon, but a female remained a female until she died. She was disqualified from exercising her peerage by her sex.” Lord Haldane, on behalf of the two dissentients, said that the Sex Disqualification Removal Act now opeiated, and it entitled the claimant to sit.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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