§ In the exercise of their power to make laws under this Act the Irish Parliament 612 shall not make a law so as either directly or indirectly to establish or endow any religion, or prohibit or restrict 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, or affect prejudicially the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending the religious instruction at that school.
§ Any law made in contravention of the restrictions imposed by this Section shall, so far as it contravenes those restrictions, be void.
§ Government Amendment made: After the word "school" ["religious instruction at that school"] insert the words "or alter the constitution of any religious body except where the alteration is approved on behalf of the religious body by the governing body thereof, or divert from any religious denomination the fabric of cathedral churches or, except for the purpose of roads, railways, lighting, water, or drainage works, or other works of public utility upon payment of compensation, any other property."—[Mr. Birrell.]