Against Home Rule (1912) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 377 pages of information about Against Home Rule (1912).

Against Home Rule (1912) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 377 pages of information about Against Home Rule (1912).
“(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.

     “4.  The powers of the Irish Legislature shall not extend to the
     making of any law—­

     “(1) Respecting the establishment or endowment of religion,
     whether directly or indirectly, or prohibiting the free exercise
     thereof; or

“(2) Imposing any disability, or conferring any privilege, advantage, or benefit, on account of religious belief, or raising or appropriating directly or indirectly, save as heretofore, any public revenue for any religious purpose, or for the benefit of the holder of any religious office as such; or

     “(3) Diverting the property, or, without its consent, altering the
     constitution of any religious body; or

     “(4) Abrogating or prejudicially affecting the right to establish
     or maintain any place of denominational education, or any
     denominational institution or charity; or

“(5) Whereby there may be established or endowed out of public funds any theological professorship, or any university or college in which the conditions set out in the University of Dublin Tests Acts, 1873, are not observed; or

     “(6) Prejudicially affecting the right of any child to attend a
     school receiving public money without attending the religious
     instruction at that school; or

“(7) Directly or indirectly imposing any disability or conferring any privilege, benefit, or advantage upon any subject of the Crown on account of his parentage or place of birth, or of the place where any part of his business is carried on, or upon any corporation or institution constituted or existing by virtue of the law of some part of the Queen’s dominions, and carrying on operations
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