esented to the Representative of the Crown for the King's Assent,
the Representative of the Crown signifies by speech or message to each of
the Houses of the Parliament/Oireachtas, or by proclamation, that it has
received the Assent of the King in Council.

An entry of every such speech, message or proclamation shall be made in
the Journal of each House and a duplicate thereof duly attested shall be
delivered to the proper officer to be kept among the Records of the Irish
Free State/Saorstat Eireann.

ARTICLE 41.

As soon as may be after any law has received the King's assent, the clerk,
or such officer as the Chamber may appoint for the purpose, shall cause
two fair copies of such law to be made, one being in the Irish language
and the other in the English language (one of which copies shall be signed
by the Representative of the Crown to be enrolled for record in the office
of such officer of the Supreme Court as the Chamber/Dail Eireann may
determine) and such copies shall be conclusive evidence as to the
provisions of every such law, and in case of conflict between the two
copies so deposited, that signed by the Representative of the Crown shall
prevail.

ARTICLE 42.

The Parliament/Oireachtas shall have no power to declare acts to be
infringements of the law which were not so at the date of their
commission.

ARTICLE 43.

The Parliament/Oireachtas may create subordinate legislatures, but it
shall not confer thereon any powers in respect of the Navy, Army or Air
Force, alienage or naturalisation, coinage, legal tender, trade marks,
designs, merchandise marks, copyright, patent rights, weights and
measures, submarine cables, wireless telegraphy, post office, railways,
aerial navigation, customs and excise.

ARTICLE 44.

The Parliament/Oireachtas may provide for the establishment of Functional
or Vocational Councils representing branches of the social and economic
life of the Nation. A law establishing any such Council shall determine
its powers, rights and duties, and its relation to the government of the
Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann.

ARTICLE 45.

The Parliament/Oireachtas has the exclusive right to regulate the raising
and maintaining of such armed forces as are mentioned in the Scheduled
Treaty in the territory of the Irish Free State/Saorstat and every such
force shall be subject to the control of the Parliament/Oireachtas.

SECTION II.--LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS.

E.--REFERENDUM AND INITIAT