IRISH FREE STATE
PRIVY COUNCIL ISSUE
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS
LONDON, 25th November.
Several questions were addressed to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on the subject of the Tecent declaration of the Irish Free State Parliament regarding appeals to, the Privy; Council.
Mr. Mac Donald said he had not received any communication on the subject from the Free State.
The Marquess -of Hartington, Sir Kingsley Wood, Sir William Davison, and Sir Austen Chamberlain pressed the view that the Free State had raised an important constitutional point by, the threat to legislate to prevent Privy Council judgments operating in Ireland,' which would be a breach of the Irish Free State Constitution Act.
Commander Kenworthy (Lab.) askeS: Did not the Speaker recently rule that matters within the competence of the Dominions' Parliaments should not be discussed in the British Parliament? The Speaker said he was not prepared on the spur of the moment to give a ruling on the constitutional poiftt raised.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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162IRISH FREE STATE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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