§ (5) This Act shall not apply to Ireland except in so far as the provisions thereof may be applied to Ireland by Order in Council made under the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 1922.
§ (8) This Act shall come into operation on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
§ Lords Amendment:
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Leave out Subsection (5) and insert a new Sub-section.
(5) Provision may be made by Order in Council under the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 1922, for applying this Act, with or without modifications, to Ireland exclusive of Northern Ireland, but except in so far as it is so applied this Act shall not apply to Ireland.
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This is a drafting Amendment, to make the position clear. There may be some doubt in the original Bill.
§ Lords Amendment:
§ In Sub-section (8), after the word "shall," insert "except as therein otherwise expressly provided, be deemed to have."
§ Agreed to.