The Irish Constitution: Explained by Darrell FiggisFiggis, Darrell
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The Irish Constitution: Explained by Darrell Figgis
Figgis, Darrell
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-1949
The Parliament/Oireachtas may create subordinate legislatures, but it
shall not confer thereon any powers in respect of the Navy, Army or Air
Force, alienage or naturalisation, coinage, legal tender, trade marks,
designs, merchandise marks, copyright, patent rights, weights and
measures, submarine cables, wireless telegraphy, post office, railways,
aerial navigation, customs and excise.
ARTICLE 44.
The Parliament/Oireachtas may provide for the establishment of Functional
or Vocational Councils representing branches of the social and economic
life of the Nation. A law establishing any such Council shall determine
its powers, rights and duties, and its relation to the government of the
Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann.
ARTICLE 45.
The Parliament/Oireachtas has the exclusive right to regulate the raising
and maintaining of such armed forces as are mentioned in the Scheduled
Treaty in the territory of the Irish Free State/Saorstat and every such
force shall be subject to the control of the Parliament/Oireachtas.
SECTION II.--LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS.
E.--REFERENDUM AND INITIATIVE.
ARTICLE 46.
Any Bill passed or deemed to have been passed by both Houses may be
suspended for a period of ninety days on the written demand of two-fifths
of the members of the Chamber/Dail Eireann or of a majority of the
members of the Senate/Seanad Eireann presented to the President of the
Executive Council not later than seven days from the day on which such
Bill shall have been so passed or deemed to have been so passed. Such a
Bill shall be submitted by Referendum to the decision of the people if
demanded before the expiration of the ninety days either by a resolution
of the Senate/Seanad Eireann assented to by three-fifths of the members of
the Senate/Seanad Eireann, or by a petition signed by not less than
one-twentieth of the voters then on the register of voters, and the
decision of the people on such referendum shall be conclusive. These
provisions shall not apply to Money Bills or to such Bills as shall be
declared by both Houses to be necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety.
ARTICLE 47.
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