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In imminent national danger the Executive Council may continue soldiers in army service or call out the Reserve on permanent service.
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156.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Executive Council in case of imminent national danger, or of great emergency by Proclamation, the occasion being first communicated to the Oireachtas if the Oireachtas be then sitting, or if the Oireachtas be not then sitting, declared by the proclamation, to order that all or any soldiers who would otherwise be entitled in pursuance of the terms of their enlistment to be transferred to the Reserve, shall continue in army service.
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(2) It shall be lawful for the Executive Council, by such proclamation to order the Minister from time to time to give, and when given to revoke or vary, such directions as may seem necessary or proper for causing all or any of the soldiers mentioned in the proclamation to continue in army service.
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(3) Every soldier for the time being required by or in pursuance of such directions to continue in army service, shall continue to serve in army service for the period for which he might be required to serve, if he had been transferred to the Reserve and called out for permanent service by a proclamation of the Executive Council under this Act relating to the Reserve.
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(4) Any man who has entered the Reserve in pursuance of the terms of his enlistment, may be called out for permanent service by a proclamation of the Executive Council under the provisions of this Act, relating to the calling out of the Reserves on permanent service.
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