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.

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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