The Representative Peers (Scotland) Act 1851
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide a Manner in which the Death of a Representative Peer for Scotland may be certified to Her Majesty, in order that Her Majesty may direct a Proclamation to be issued for the Election of another Peer of Scotland in the Room of such Peer deceased: Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: