lation 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_
(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._
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