shipping (except as respects
inland waters and local health or harbour regulations); or
(9.) Lighthouses, buoys, or beacons within the meaning of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same
(except so far as they can consistently with any general
Act of Parliament be constructed or maintained by a local
harbour authority); or
(10.) Coinage; legal tender; or any change in the standard of
weights and measures; or
(11.) Trade marks, designs, merchandise marks, copyright, or
patent rights.
Provided always, that nothing in this section shall prevent the passing
of any Irish Act to provide for any charges imposed by Act of
Parliament, or to prescribe conditions regulating importation from any
place outside Ireland for the sole purpose of preventing the
introduction of any contagious disease.
It is hereby declared that the exceptions from the powers of the Irish
Legislature contained in this section are set forth and enumerated for
greater certainty, and not so as to restrict the generality of the
limitation imposed in the previous section on the powers of the Irish
Legislature.
Any law made in contravention of this section shall be void.
4. The powers of the Irish Legislature shall not extend to the making
of any law--
(1.) Respecting the establishment or endowment of religion,
whether directly or indirectly, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or
(2.) Imposing any disability, or conferring any privilege,
advantage, or benefit, on account of religious belief, or
raising or appropriating directly or indirectly, save as
heretofore, any public revenue for any religious purpose,
or for the benefit of the holder of any religious office as
such; or
(3.) Diverting the property or without its consent altering the
constitution of any religious body; or
(4.) Abrogating or prejudicially affecting the right to
establish or maintain any place of denominational education
or any denominational institution or charity; or
(5.) Whereby there may be established and endowed out of public
funds any theological professorship or any university or
college in which the conditions set out in the University
of Dublin Tests Act, 1873, are not observed; or
(6.) Prejudicially affecting the
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