ch reserved matter if the corresponding
reserved service is transferred to the Irish Government
under the provisions of this Act.

Any law made in contravention of the limitations imposed by this
section shall, so far as it contravenes those limitations, be void.

[Sidenote: Prohibition of laws interfering with religious equality,
&c.]

3. In the exercise of their power to make laws under this Act the Irish
Parliament shall not make a law so as either directly or indirectly to
establish or endow any religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof,
or give a preference, privilege, or advantage, or impose any disability
or disadvantage, on account of religious belief or religious or
ecclesiastical status, or make any religious belief or religious
ceremony a condition of the validity of any marriage.

Any law made in contravention of the restrictions imposed by this
section shall, so far as it contravenes those restrictions, be void.

_Executive Authority._

[Sidenote: Executive power in Ireland.]

4.--(1) The executive power in Ireland shall continue vested in His
Majesty the King, and nothing in this Act shall affect the exercise of
that power except as respects Irish services as defined for the
purposes of this Act.

(2) As respects those Irish services the Lord Lieutenant or other chief
executive officer or officers for the time being appointed in his
place, on behalf of His Majesty, shall exercise any prerogative or
other executive power of His Majesty the exercise of which may be
delegated to him by His Majesty.

(3) The power so delegated shall be exercised through such Irish
Departments as may be established by Irish Act, or subject thereto, by
the Lord Lieutenant, and the Lord Lieutenant may appoint officers to
administer those Departments, and those officers shall hold office
during the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant.

(4) The persons who are for the time being heads of such Irish
Departments as may be determined by Irish Act, or, in the absence of
any such determination, by the Lord Lieutenant, and such other persons
(if any) as the Lord Lieutenant may appoint, shall be the Irish
Ministers.

Provided that--

(a) No such person shall be an Irish Minister unless he is a
member of the Privy Council of Ireland; and

(b) No such person shall hold office as an Irish Minister for a
longer period than six months, unless he is or becomes a
member of