niversity or college
in which the conditions set out in the University of Dublin Tests
Acts, 1873, are not observed; or
"(6) Prejudicially affecting the right of any child to attend a
school receiving public money without attending the religious
instruction at that school; or
"(7) Directly or indirectly imposing any disability or conferring
any privilege, benefit, or advantage upon any subject of the Crown
on account of his parentage or place of birth, or of the place
where any part of his business is carried on, or upon any
corporation or institution constituted or existing by virtue of
the law of some part of the Queen's dominions, and carrying on
operations in Ireland, on account of the persons by whom or in
whose favour, or the place in which any of its operations are
carried on; or
"(8) Whereby any person may be deprived of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law in accordance with settled
principles and precedents, or may be denied the equal protection
of the laws, or whereby private property may be taken without just
compensation; or
"(9) Whereby any existing corporation incorporated by Royal
Charter or by any local or general Act of Parliament may, unless
it consents, or the leave of Her Majesty is first obtained on
address from the two Houses of the Irish Legislature, be deprived
of its rights, privileges, or property without due process of law
in accordance with settled principles and precedents, and so far
as respects property without just compensation. Provided nothing
in this sub-section shall prevent the Irish Legislature from
dealing with any public department, municipal corporation, or
local authority, or with any corporation administering for public
purposes taxes, rates, cess, dues, or tolls, so far as concerns
the same. Any law made in contravention of this section shall be
void."
The power to impose taxation other than duties of custom and excise was
to be transferred, subject to a short delay as to existing taxes and to
a special provision in respect of taxes for war expenditure, to the
Irish Legislature (clause II). Two judges of the Supreme Court in
Ireland, to be called "Exchequer Judges," were to be appointed under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, and to be removable only on an address
from the Imperial Parl
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