Yelverton's Act

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 700+ words | Copyright

Yelverton's Act (1782) modified Poynings's Law by providing that all bills passed by both houses of the Irish parliament should be forwarded to England, and that only such bills, having received the royal assent under the great seal of Great Britain, could become law. The cumbersome procedure of heads of bills thus became redundant. Both privy councils lost their power to initiate or amend legislation, and the Irish council its power of suppression, though the English council could still refuse the royal assent. Introduced by Barry Yelverton (1736–1805), a leading patriot, on 18 December 1781, the measure was not opposed by the executive; however Henry Flood, anticipating his stand on the Renunciation Act, attacked it as inadequate. Yelverton, later Lord Avonmore, became attorney‐general (1782) and chief baron of the Irish exchequer (1783), and supported the Act of Union.

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