Source of Authority

Marc Horn made this Freedom of Information request to House of Lords This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, House of Lords should have responded by now (details). The person who made the request can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear House of Lords,

Acts of Parliament claim their authority from:
"Be it enacted by the [Monarch]'s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same,..."

Please provide the documentary records you hold creating this authority for each party to an act of parliament as Act of Parliament claim it is by their own authority as
"and by the authority of the same".
This is an admitted expressed self proclaimed authority.

Please provide the documents creating the authority for:
1 - The Monarch, and
2 - The Lords Spiritual, and
3 - The Lords Temporal, and
4 - The Commons.

Yours faithfully,

Marc Horn

Dear House of Lords,

I have not received a response to my FOI within the required time. Please confirm when you will comply with your obligations.

Yours faithfully,

Marc Horn