Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910; Land tenure -- Ireland
=36.=--(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act Her Majesty the Queen in
Council may make or direct such arrangements as seem necessary or proper
for setting in motion the Irish Legislature and Government and for
otherwise bringing this Act into operation.
(2) The Irish Legislature shall be summoned to meet on the _first Tuesday
in September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four_, and the first
election of members of the two Houses of the Irish Legislature shall be
held at such time before that day as may be fixed by Her Majesty in
Council.
(3) Upon the first meeting of the Irish Legislature the members of the
House of Commons then sitting for Irish constituencies, including the
members for Dublin University, shall vacate their seats, and writs shall,
as soon as conveniently may be, be issued by the Lord Chancellor of
Ireland for the purpose of holding an election of members to serve in
Parliament for the constituencies named in the Second Schedule of this
Act.
(4) The existing Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the senior of the
existing puisne judges of the Exchequer Division of the Supreme Court, or
if they or either of them are or is dead or unable or unwilling to act,
such other of the judges of the Supreme Court as Her Majesty may appoint,
shall be the first Exchequer judges.
(5) Where it appears to Her Majesty the Queen in Council, before the
expiration of _one year_ after the appointed day, that any existing
enactment respecting matters within the powers of the Irish Legislature
requires adaptation to Ireland, whether--
(_a_) By the substitution of the Lord-Lieutenant in Council, or of any
departments or office of the Executive Government in Ireland, for Her
Majesty in Council, a Secretary of State, the Treasury, the
Postmaster-General, the Board of Inland Revenue, or other public
department or offices in Great Britain; or
(_b_) By the substitution of the Irish Consolidated Fund or moneys
provided by the Irish Legislature for the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom, or moneys provided by Parliament, or
(_c_) By the substitution or confirmation by, or other act to be done
by or to, the Irish Legislature for confirmation by or other act to be
done by or to Parliament; or
(_d_) By any other adaptation; Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may
make that adaptation.
(6) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may provide for the transfer of such
property, rights, and liabilities, and the doing of such other things as
may appear to Her Majesty necessary or proper for carrying into effect
this Act or any Order in Council under this Act.
(7) An Order in Council under this section may make an adaptation or
provide for a transfer either unconditionally or subject to such
exceptions, conditions, and restrictions as may seem expedient.
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