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Exclusive privileges and rights as to exercising trades in cities, towns, or boroughs in Ireland to cease.
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[1] It shall be lawful for any person or persons to deal in any merchandize, and to carry on, use, and exercise any lawful trade, occupation, mystery, or handicraft, and to take apprentices to learn the same, in any city, town, or borough, and elsewhere, in Ireland, without being a member of any guild, craft, incorporation, or fraternity, and free from any control, regulation, restraint, or interference of any guild, craft, incorporation, or fraternity whatsoever; any royal charter, grant, or letters patent, or any prescription, custom, or bye law, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Nothing in this Act to repeal or alter
23 & 24 Geo. 3. (I.) c. 23, or
47 Geo. 3. sess. 2. c. 15;
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5. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall repeal or alter any thing contained in an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the session held in the twenty-third and twenth-fourth years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act to regulate the assay of gold, and promote the manufacture of gold and silver wares in this kingdom”, or an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act to provide for the regulating and securing the collection of the duty on gold and silver plate wrought or manufactured in Ireland,” or so much of the said recited Acts as in now in force.
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6. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner alter or affect the provisions of the Municipal Corporation (Ireland) Act, 1840, or the construction thereof, but the same shall be construed and applied as if this Act had not passed: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner alter or affect any thing contained in an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for the more effectually preserving the health of his Majesty’s subjects, for erecting an apothecaries hall in the city of Dublin, and regulating the profession of an apothecary throughout the kingdom of Ireland,” or the rights, privileges, or immunities of the governor and company of the Apothecaries Hall of Dublin.
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