House of Lords (Members’ Taxation Status) Bill [HL]

Clause 1: Taxation status of members of the House of Lords Amendment 1 1: Clause 1, page 1, line 2, leave out subsection (1) and insert— "(1) Any Member introduced into the House of Lords after the passing of this Act shall be a British citizen for taxation purposes. (1A) For the purposes of this Act "British citizen" means— (a) a citizen of England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; or (b) a citizen of Her Majesty’s Crown Dependencies and Her Majesty’s Crown Dependencies are— (i) The Isle of Man, (ii) The Bailiwick of Jersey, (iii) the Bailiwick of Guernsey; or (c) a citizen of Her Majesty’s Overseas Territories who holds British citizenship under the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 and Her Majesty’s Overseas Territories are— (i) Anguilla, (ii) Bermuda, (iii) British Antarctic Territory, (iv) British Indian Ocean Territory, (v) British Virgin Islands, (vi) Cayman Islands, (vii) Falkland Islands, (viii) Gibraltar, (ix) Montserrat, (x) Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, (xi) St Helena and her dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cuhna, (xii) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. (1B) For the purposes of this Act a member of the House of Lords who is a citizen of one of Her Majesty’s Realms may be granted British citizenship without surrendering the current citizenship of a country of Her Majesty’s Realms which are— (a) Antigua and Barbuda, (b) Australia, (c) The Bahamas, (d) Barbados, (e) Belize, (f) Canada, (g) Grenada, (h) Jamaica, (i) New Zealand, (j) Papua New Guinea, (k) St Kitts and Nevis, (l) St Lucia, (m) St Vincent and Grenadines, (n) Solomon Islands, (o) Tuvalu. (1C) For the purposes of this Act, a member of the House of Lords who was born in any country of the Commonwealth prior to independence of that country may be granted British citizenship without surrendering the current citizenship of the country of birth."