(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.]

4. The Irish Legislature shall not make 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 derogating from 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

(5.) Impairing, without either the leave of Her Majesty in Council first obtained on an address presented by the Legislative Body of Ireland, or the consent of the corporation interested, the rights, property, or privileges of any existing corporation incorporated by royal charter or local and general Act of Parliament; or

     (6.) Imposing or relating to duties of customs and duties of
     excise, as defined by this Act, or either of such duties, or
     affecting any Act relating to such duties or either of them; or

     (7.) Affecting this Act, except in so far as it is declared to be
     alterable by the Irish Legislature.

[Sidenote:  Prerogatives of Her Majesty as to Irish Legislative Body.]

5. Her Majesty the Queen shall have the same prerogatives with respect to summoning, proroguing, and dissolving the Irish Legislative Body as Her Majesty has with respect to summoning, proroguing, and dissolving the Imperial Parliament.

[Sidenote:  Duration of the Irish Legislative Body.]

6. The Irish Legislative Body whenever summoned may have continuance for five years and no longer, to be reckoned from the day on which any such Legislative Body is appointed to meet.

Executive Authority.

[Sidenote:  Constitution of the Executive Authority.]

7.—­(1.) The Executive Government of Ireland shall continue vested in Her Majesty, and shall be carried on by the Lord-Lieutenant on behalf of Her Majesty with the aid of such officers and such Council as to Her Majesty may from time to time seem fit.

(2.) Subject to any instructions which may from time to time be given by Her Majesty, the Lord-Lieutenant shall give or withhold the assent of Her Majesty to Bills passed by the Irish Legislative Body, and shall exercise the prerogatives of Her Majesty in respect of the summoning, proroguing, and dissolving of the Irish Legislative Body, and any prerogatives the exercise of which may be delegated to him by Her Majesty.