IVE.

ARTICLE 46.

Any Bill passed or deemed to have been passed by both Houses may be
suspended for a period of ninety days on the written demand of two-fifths
of the members of the Chamber/Dail Eireann or of a majority of the
members of the Senate/Seanad Eireann presented to the President of the
Executive Council not later than seven days from the day on which such
Bill shall have been so passed or deemed to have been so passed. Such a
Bill shall be submitted by Referendum to the decision of the people if
demanded before the expiration of the ninety days either by a resolution
of the Senate/Seanad Eireann assented to by three-fifths of the members of
the Senate/Seanad Eireann, or by a petition signed by not less than
one-twentieth of the voters then on the register of voters, and the
decision of the people on such referendum shall be conclusive. These
provisions shall not apply to Money Bills or to such Bills as shall be
declared by both Houses to be necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety.

ARTICLE 47.

The Parliament/Oireachtas may provide for the initiation by the people of
proposals for laws or constitutional amendments. Should the
Parliament/Oireachtas fail to make such provision within two years, it
shall on the petition of not less than one hundred thousand voters on the
register, of whom not more than twenty thousand shall be voters in any one
constituency, either make such provisions or submit the question to the
people for decision in accordance with the ordinary regulations governing
the Referendum. Any legislation passed by the Parliament/Oireachtas
providing for such initiation by the people shall provide (1) that such
proposals may be initiated on a petition of fifty thousand voters on the
register, (2) that if the Parliament/Oireachtas rejects a proposal so
initiated it shall be submitted to the people for decision in accordance
with the ordinary regulations governing the Referendum; and (3) that if
the Parliament/Oireachtas enacts a proposal so initiated, such enactment
shall be subject to the provisions respecting ordinary legislation or
amendments of the Constitution as the case may be.

ARTICLE 48.

Save in the case of actual invasion, the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann
shall not be committed to active participation in any war without the
assent of the Parliament/Oireachtas.

ARTICLE 49.

Amendments of this Constitution within the terms of the Sche