The Act wsas passed on to te statute books on the understanding that it would not be enacted on until the matter of partition had been resolved - as the Government ascertained that no agreement could ever be reached by deciding on the matter of partition arbitrarily without consultation, the law became null and void and the whole Home Rule issue died a death

The Act went onto the statute books on a number of understandings

1: Conclusion of hostilities was the primary one
2: It would be the Westminster Parliaments first order of business once the war had ended
3: That the question of temporary partition would be addressed as the previous agreement and amending bill had been abandoned when Great Britain declared war on the 4th August 1914

The 1914 Act died a death when nine men decided that what the country needed was a war of independence in 1919, the 1914 Act was repealed and the 1920 Act was passed to replace it. The Unionists in the North accepted it, and Sinn Fein in the South rejected it, even in the 1920 Act partition was only temporary. The War of Independence ended up in stalemate in June 1921 when a truce came into effect and peace negotiations were entered into. This resulted in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of the 6th December 1921, the following day the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the 1920 Act seceded from the Irish Free State in accordance with their rights guaranteed by the Anglo-Irish Treaty.