Irish Universities Act, 1908

Statutes to be laid before Parliament.

5.(1) When any statute has been made under this Act, a notice of its having been made and of the place where copies can be obtained shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and the statute shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament.

(2) If either House of Parliament within forty days (exclusive of any period of prorogation) after a statute has been laid before it presents an address praying His Majesty to disallow the statute or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken on the statute or on the part thereof to which the address relates; but this provision shall be without prejudice to the making of a new statute.

(3) The governing body of a university or constituent college to which the statute relates, or any other person, corporation, or body directly affected by the statute, may, within three months from the notification thereof in the Dublin Gazette, petition the Lord Lieutenant in Council to disallow the whole or any part thereof.

(4) The Lord Lieutenant in Council may refer any such petition to the Irish Universities Committee, with a direction that the committee hear the petitioner personally or by counsel, and report specially to the Lord Lieutenant in Council on the matter of the petition.

(5) If the committee report in favour of the disallowance of the statute or any part thereof, the Lord Lieutenant may, by Order in Council, disallow the whole or part thereof accordingly, but any such disallowance shall be without prejudice to the making of a new statute.