§ 47. Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSONasked, with reference to Clause 2 of the Government of Ireland Bill, by which the Irish Parliament is precluded from making laws in respect of trade, quarantine, merchant shipping, lighthouses, trade marks, merchandise marks, copyright, patent rights, or weights and measures, whether the officers who perform the Executive duties in Ireland in relation to these matters will be exempt from any jurisdiction of or disciplinary obedience to the Irish Executive, and will be solely amenable to the several Imperial authorities administering such services from the respective headquarters in London?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe answer is in the affirmative, except to the extent of any arrangements that may be made between the Imperial and Irish Departments under Clause 40. Those arrangements are to be such as not to diminish the responsibility of the Imperial Department by which the arrangement is made.