Whereas it is expedient that without impairing or restricting the supreme authority of Parliament, an Irish Legislature should be created for such purposes in Ireland as in this Act mentioned: Be it therefore 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: _Legislative Authority_ 1. _On and after the appointed day_ there shall be in Ireland a Legislature consisting of Her Majesty the Queen and of two Houses, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly. 2. With the exceptions and subject to the restrictions in this Act mentioned, there shall be granted to the Irish Legislature power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of Ireland in respect of matters exclusively relating to Ireland or some part thereof. 3. The Irish Legislature shall not have power to make laws in respect of the following matters or any of them:-- (1) The Crown, or the succession to the Crown, or a Regency; or the Lord Lieutenant as representative of the Crown; or (2) The making of peace or war or matters arising from a state of war; or (3) Naval or military forces, or the defence of the realm; or (4) Treaties and other relations with foreign States or the relations between different parts of Her Majesty's dominions or offences connected with such treaties or relations; or (5) Dignities or titles of honour; or (6) Treason, treason-felony, alienage, or naturalisation; or (7) Trade with any place out of Ireland; or quarantine, or navigation (except as respects inland waters and local health or harbour regulations); or (8) Beacons, lighthouses, or sea marks (except so far as they can consistently with any general Act of Parliament be constructed or maintained by a local harbour authority); or (9) Coinage; legal tender; or the standard of weights and measures; or (10) Trade marks, merchandise marks, copyright, or patent rights. Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void. 4. The powers of the Irish Legislature shall not extend to the making of any law-- (1) Respecting the establishment or endowment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or (2) Imposing any disability, or conferring any privilege, on account of religious belief; or (3) Abrogating or prejudicially affecting the right to establish or maintain any place of denominational education or any denominational institution or charity; or (4) Prejudicially affecting the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money, without attending the religious instruction at that school; or