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![handle is hein.cow/irfree0001 and id is 1 raw text is: APPENDIX
The original Constitution is printed in ordinary type; the por-
tions deleted by the Constitution Amendment Acts are printed
between square brackets; and those which have been added
are printed in italics.
The portions tobe deleted by the Constitution (Removal of Oath)
Bill, 1932, are printed with a dotted line underneath them.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE
STATE (SAORSTAT EIREANN) ACT
[No. 1 of 1922]
An Act to enact a Constitution for the Irish Free State
(Saorstbit Eireann) and for implementing the Treaty
between Great Britain and Ireland signed at London
on the 6th day of December, 1921.
Diil Eireann sitting as a Constituent Assembly in this Provisional
Parliament, acknowledging that all lawful authority comes from God
to the people and in the confidence that the National life and unity of
Ireland shall thus be restored, hereby proclaims the establishment of
the Irish Free State (otherwise called Saorstit Eireann) and in the
exercise of undoubted right, decrees and enacts as follows:-
i. The Constitution set forth in the First Schedule hereto annexed
shall be the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstit Eireann).
2. The said Constitution shall be construed with reference to the
Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland
set forth in the Second Schedule hereto annexed (hereinafter referred
to as the Scheduled Treaty) which are hereby given the force of
law, and if any provision of the said Constitution or of any amendment
thereof or of any law made thereunder is in any respect repugnant to
any of the provisions of the Scheduled Treaty, it shall, to the extent
only of such repugnancy, be absolutely void and inoperative and the
Parliament and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
(Saors -tAt _Eireann) shall respectively pass such further legislation and
do all such other things as may be necessary to implement the
Scheduled Treaty.
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