HC Deb 08 August 1896 vol 44 cc260-8

This Act may be cited as the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1896.

Clause ordered to stand part of the Bill

SCHEDULE.
PART I.
1. Session and Chapter. 2. Short Title 3. How far continued. 4. Amending Acts.
(1.) 5 & 6 Will. 4 c. 27. The Linen Manufactures (Ireland) Act 1835. The whole Act 3 & 4 Vict. c. 91
5 & 6 Vict. c. 68
7 & 8 Vict. c. 47.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 60
(2.) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 89 The Poor Rate Exemption Act 1840. The whole Act. —
(3.) 4 & 5 Vict. c. 30 The Ordnance Survey Act 1841. The whole Act 33 Vict. c. 13.
47 & 48 Vict. c. 43
52 & 53 Vict. c. 30
(4.) 10 & 11 Vict. c. 98. The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1847. As to the provisions continued by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 50. —
(5.) 11 & 12 Vict. c. 32. The County Cess (Ireland) Act, 1848. The whole Act 20 & 21 Vict. c 7.
(6.) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104. The Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act 1851. The whole Act 17 & 18 Vict. c. 16
21 & 22 Vict. c. 94.
22 & 23 Vict. c. 46.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 124.
31 & 32 Vict. c. 114. s. 10.
(7.) 17 & 18 Vict. c. 102. The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act 1854. So much as is continued by the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 29. s. 6.
31 & 32 Vict. c. 125.
46 & 47 Vict. c. 51.
(8.) 23 & 24 Vict. c. 19. The Labourers (Ireland) Act 1860. The whole Act —
(9.) 24 & 25 Vict. c. 109. The Salmon Fishery Act 1861 As to the appointment of inspectors, s. 31. 49 & 50 Vict. c. 39. s. 3.
55 & 56 Vict. c. 50.
(10.) 26 & 27 Vict. c. 105. The Promissory Notes Act 1863. The whole Act 45 & 46 Vict. c. 61.
(11.) 27 & 28 Vict. c. 20. The Promissory Notes (Ireland) Act 1864. The whole Act. —
(12.) 28 & 29 Vict. c. 46. The Militia (Ballot Suspension) Act 1865. The whole Act 45 & 46 Vict. c. 49.
MR. T. M. HEALY

moved to leave out from "(26) 44 and 45 Vic., c. 5," to "50 and 51 Vic., c 20." It was impossible properly to discuss the question on a Saturday at that period of the Session, but in another year the question would be raised as a whole. The Orange party were never prevented from possessing arms by this Act; it was never enforced against them. And if firing into dwellings still continued it was obvious that the Act was useless for its purpose. It was impossible to prevent people from possessing arms. He would say to the Government as a whole that, even if they maintained the necessity for the Act, the question required more stringent investigation than the right hon. Gentleman had given to it.

MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast)

denied the statement that the Orange party in Ireland carried firearms.

MR. JOHN DILLON (Mayo, E.)

said that what the hon. Member for North Louth had stated was perfectly true. It was perfectly notorious that the Orange party were allowed to keep their arms to a considerable extent, and it was too bad that the proceedings of the Orange party, which were a disgrace to the country, should be made the ground for depriving the peaceable inhabitants of the right to carry arms. The Act did not prevent riotous Orangemen, moonlighters, and emergency men from carrying arms to their hearts' content.

Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Schedule."

The Committee divided:—Ayes 47; Noes, 16.—(Division List, No. 398.)

Schedule agreed to.

Bill reported without Amendment; read the third time, and passed.

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