England's Case Against Home RuleDicey, A. V. (Albert Venn)
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England's Case Against Home Rule
Dicey, A. V. (Albert Venn)
Home rule -- Ireland
30. Provision for existing pensions and superannuation allowances.
_Transitory Provisions_.
31. Transitory provisions in Schedule.
_Miscellaneous_.
32. Post Office and savings banks.
33. Audit.
34. Application of parliamentary law.
35. Regulations for carrying Act into effect.
36. Saving of powers of House of Lords.
37. Saving of Rights of Parliament.
38. Continuance of existing laws, courts, officers, &c.
39. Mode of alteration of Act.
40. Definitions.
41. Short title of Act.
SCHEDULES.
* * * * *
_A Bill to amend the provision for the future Government of Ireland_.
[Sidenote: A.D. 1886]
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:
PART I.
_Legislative Authority_.
[Sidenote: Establishment of Irish Legislature.]
1. _On and after the appointed day there shall be established in
Ireland a Legislature consisting of Her Majesty the Queen and an Irish
Legislative Body._
[Sidenote: Powers of Irish Legislature.]
2. _With the exceptions and subject to the restrictions in this Act
mentioned, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, by and with the
advice of the Irish Legislative Body, to make laws for the peace, order,
and good government of Ireland, and by any such law to alter and repeal
any law in Ireland._
[Sidenote: Exceptions from powers of Irish Legislature.]
3. _The Legislature of Ireland shall not make laws relating to the
following matters or any of them:--_
(1.) _The status or dignity of the Crown, or the succession to the
Crown, or a Regency;_
(2.) _The making of peace or war;_
(3.) _The army, navy, militia, volunteers, or other military or
naval forces, or the defence of the realm;_
(4.) _Treaties and other relations with foreign States, or the
relations between the various parts of Her Majesty's dominions;_
(5.) _Dignities or titles of honour;_
(6.) _Prize or booty of war;_
(7.) _Offences against the law of nations; or offences committed in
violation of any treaty made, or hereafter to be made, between Her
Majesty and any foreign State; or offences committed on the high
seas;_
(8.) _Treason, alienage, or naturalization;_
(9.) _Trade, navigation, or quarantine;_
(10.) _The postal and telegraph service, except as hereafter in
this Act mentioned with respect to the transmission of letters and
telegrams in Ireland;_
(11.) _Beacons, lighthouses, or sea marks;_
(12.) _The coinage; the value of foreign money; legal tender; or
weights and measures; or_
(13.) _Copyright, patent rights, or other exclusive rights to the
use or profits of any works or inventions._
Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.
[Sidenote: Restrictions on powers of Irish Legislature.]
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