39.—(1) On and after the appointed day this Act shall not, except such provisions thereof as are declared to be alterable by the Legislature of Ireland, be altered except—
(a) By Act of the Imperial Parliament and with the consent of the Irish Legislative Body testified by an address to Her Majesty, or
(b) By an Act of the Imperial Parliament, for the passing of which there shall be summoned to the House of Lords the peerage members of the first order of the Irish Legislative Body, and if there are no such members then twenty-eight Irish representative peers elected by the Irish peers in manner heretofore in use, subject to adaptation as provided by this Act; and there shall be summoned to the House of Commons such one of the members of each constituency, or in the case of a constituency returning four members such two of those members, as the Legislative Body of Ireland may select, and such peers and members shall respectively be deemed, for the purpose of passing any such Act, to be members of the said Houses of Parliament respectively.
(2) For the purposes of this section, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to make such provisions for summoning the said peers of Ireland to the House of Lords and the said members from Ireland to the House of Commons as to Her Majesty may seem necessary or proper, and any provisions contained in such Order in Council shall have the same effect as if they had been enacted by Parliament.
Definitions.
40. In this Act—
The expression ‘the appointed day’ shall mean such day after the thirty-first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven as may be determined by order of Her Majesty in Council.
The expression ‘Lord-Lieutenant’ includes the lords justices or any other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being.
The expression ‘Her Majesty the Queen,’ or ‘Her Majesty in Council,’ or ‘the Queen,’ includes the heirs and successors of Her Majesty the Queen.
The expression ‘Treasury’ means the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.