sentative peers
to the House of Lords or members to the House of Commons, and the
persons who on the said day are such representative peers and members
shall cease as such to be members of the House of Lords and House of
Commons respectively.

Clause 25 refers constitutional questions to the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council.

Clause 26 abolishes religious test for the Lord Lieutenant.

Clauses 27-30 safeguards interests of Judges and Civil Servants.

Clauses 31-36, transitory and miscellaneous.

37. Save as herein expressly provided all matters in relation to which
it is not competent for the Irish Legislative Body to make or repeal
laws shall remain and be within the exclusive authority of the Imperial
Parliament save as aforesaid, whose power and authority in relation
thereto shall in nowise be diminished or restrained by anything herein
contained.

Clause 38 continues existing laws, courts and officers.

[Sidenote: Mode of alteration of Act.]

39.--(1.) On and after the appointed day this Act shall not, except
such provisions thereof as are declared to be alterable by the
Legislature of Ireland, be altered except--

(a.) by Act of the Imperial Parliament and with the consent
of the Irish Legislative Body testified by an address to
Her Majesty, or

(b.) by an Act of the Imperial Parliament for the passing of
which there shall be summoned to the House of Lords the
peerage members of the first order of the Irish Legislative
Body, and if there are no such members then twenty-eight
Irish representative peers elected by the Irish peers in
manner heretofore in use, subject to adaptation as provided
by this Act; and there shall be summoned to the House of
Commons such one of the members of each constituency, or in
the case of a constituency returning four members such two
of those members, as the Legislative Body of Ireland may
select, and such peers and members shall respectively be
deemed, for the purpose of passing any such Act, to be
members of the said Houses of Parliament respectively.

(2.) For the purposes of this section it shall be lawful for Her
Majesty by Order in Council to make such provisions for summoning the
said peers of Ireland to the House of Lords and the said members from
Ireland to the House of Commons as to Her Majesty may seem necessary or
proper,