IRISH LEGISLATION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11

IRISH LEGISLATION

QUESTION IN HOUSE OF LORDS

LONDON, 13th November. In the Hqugo of Lords, Lord Danesfort drew attention to the Irish Free State's Copyright Preservation Act, a section of which was designed to render nugatory an appeal pending to the Privy Council. He moved disapproving of such expost facto legislation. Lord Passfield, replying, said he regretted the subject had been raised in the form of attacking Dominion legislation. It was not constitutional to reflect on the action of a Dominion Parliament. The motion must add to the difficulties of the Imperial Constitutional and Law Conference now sitting. The fact was that the Act was introduced to prevent anyone, taking advantage of the fact discovered by the Free btate Supreme Court that no" copyright ioo,exis,«T d in Irelana between 1922 and i, *, tT m s Peaking on behalf of all tho Dominions when I suggest it is not a good plan to take any Dominion Act and ascribe intentions and motives to those introducing and passing it '' Lord Passfield added that the Government made represenations in Dublin in July and got the Free State's explanation and decided to take no further steps, o

Loid Salisbury: "It is sure]y not dis . ic-spectful to draw thle attention of the •H. BtilX° 'he order]iness with which the great Dominions accepted the law as ■IL BtOOCI.

Lord Danesfort said that he did not desire to injure tho deliberations of the conference, whale protesting against