Constitution (Amendment No. 21) Act 1933

The Constitution (Amendment No. 21) Act, 1933 was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State, abolishing the right of the Governor General to refuse to sign a Bill passed by the Oireachtas. It formed part of the constitutional programme of Fianna Fáil following its victory in the 1932 general election.[1]

Article 41 had previously provided that the Governor General could refuse to sign a Bill or refer a Bill to London, giving the crown (in practice the UK executive) up to one year to approve the Bill or otherwise. However this power was only to be exercised along the same lines as constitutional practice in Canada. [2]

The Act became obsolete on the repeal of the 1922 Constitution in 1937, and has formally been repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2016.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1933/act/41/enacted/en/print.html
  2. ↑ http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1922/act/1/enacted/en/print.html
  3. ↑ "Statute Law Revision Bill 2016" (PDF). Oireachtas.ie. Retrieved 2017-01-02.


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