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14 July, 2021 00:59
By a recent Northern Ireland (NI) High Court ruling, subsequent legislative acts supersede previous acts relating to the same subject.
Like the 1707 Act of Union of the English and Scottish parliaments (thereby GB), the 1800 Act of Union of the GB and Irish parliaments created a political union of those countries with a unitary parliament, effectively under English dominant control. Nominally the union is subject to a symbolic monarchy which is actually subject to the unitary parliament. Hence the title ‘United Kingdom’.
The 1800 Act was superseded by the 1920 Government of Ireland Act which relaxed the political union and English dominance by devolving parliamentary powers and functions to regional parliaments in Dublin and Belfast. In effect, NI was, for the next half century, an autonomous region at arms-length from the UK of GB, a situation enjoyed to their advantage by NI unionists and tolerated by the Westminster government.