Home rule -- Ireland; Ireland -- Economic conditions; Land tenure -- Ireland
The specific reservations and restrictions were contained in clauses 3
and 4 of the Bill, which were as follows:--
"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 the regulation of the conduct of any portion of Her
Majesty's subjects during the existence of hostilities between
foreign States with which Her Majesty is at peace, in respect of
such hostilities; or
"(3) Navy, army, militia, volunteers, and any other military
forces, or the defence of the realm, or forts, permanent military
camps, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful
buildings, or any places purchased for the erection thereof; or
"(4) Authorising either the carrying or using of arms for military
purposes, or the formation of associations for drill or practice
in the use of arms for military purposes; or
"(5) Treaties or any relations with foreign States or the
relations between different parts of Her Majesty's dominions, or
offences connected with such treaties or relations, or procedure
connected with the extradition of criminals under any treaty; or
"(6) Dignities or titles of honour; or
"(7) Treason, treason-felony, alienage, aliens as such, or
naturalisation; or
"(8) Trade with any place out of Ireland; or quarantine, or
navigation, including merchant shipping (except as respects inland
waters and local health or harbour regulations); or
"(9) Lighthouses, buoys, or beacons within the meaning of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same
(except so far as they can consistently with any general Act of
Parliament be constructed or maintained by a local harbour
authority); or
"(10) Coinage; legal tender; or any change in the standard of
weights and measures; or
"(11) Trade marks, designs, merchandise marks, copyright, or
patent rights.
"Provided always, that nothing in this section shall prevent the
passing of any Irish Act to provide for any charges imposed by Act
of Parliament, or to prescribe conditions regulating importation
from any place outside Ireland for the sole purpose of preventing
the introduction of any contagious disease.
"It is hereby declared that the exceptions from the powers of the
Irish Legislature contained in this section are set forth and
enumerated for greater certainty, and not so as to restrict the
generality of the limitation imposed in the previous section on
the powers of the Irish Legislature.
"Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.
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