Editing Representative peer (section)

==House of Commons==
After the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, Scottish peers, including those who did not sit as representative peers, were excluded from the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stephenson |first=Charles |title=The Admiral's Secret Weapon: Lord Dundonald And the Origins of Chemical Warfare |publisher=Boydell Press |year=2006 |location=Woodbridge |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmENMRjhgtcC&pg=PA35 |isbn=1-84383-280-1}}</ref> Irish peers were not subject to the same restrictions. Irish members not nominated as representative peers were allowed to serve in Parliament as representatives of constituencies in Great Britain, although not in Ireland,<ref>{{cite book |last=Ruvigny |first=Melville H. |author-link=Melville Henry Massue |title=The Nobilities of Europe |publisher=Melville and Company |year=1910 |location=London |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHKBWAz9MMQC&pg=PA1 |isbn=1-4021-8561-8}}</ref> provided they gave up their [[rights and privileges of peers|privileges as a peer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aip/Geo3/40/38/section/wrapper7#comref-887699 |title=Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (c.38) |publisher=The UK Statute Law Database |access-date=11 February 2013}}</ref> [[Lord Curzon]], for example, specifically requested an Irish peerage when made [[Viceroy of India]], so that he would not be debarred from sitting in the House of Commons on his return.<ref>Malcomson 2000 p.320</ref>

The Peerage Act 1963 allowed all Scottish peers to sit in the House of Lords;<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-legislation |title=Legislation affecting the House of Lords: Legislation affecting the House of Lords |access-date=17 January 2013}}</ref> it also permitted all Irish peers to sit in the House of Commons for any constituency in the United Kingdom, as well as to vote in parliamentary elections, without being deprived of the remaining privileges of peerage.<ref name="Peerage Act 1963"/>