Indemnity Act, 1924

Validation of sentences and execution of sentences of military tribunals.

3.—Every military court, committee, or tribunal (in this section referred to as a military tribunal) maintained by or under the authority of the First Dáil Eireann or the Second Dáil Eireann for the trial of persons shall be deemed to be and always to have been a lawfully established tribunal, and every sentence passed judgment given or order made by such military tribunal after the 21st day of January, 1919, and before the 28th day of June, 1922, and everything done in execution of any such sentence judgment or order, shall be deemed to be and always to have been valid and lawful, and such sentence or order shall be deemed to be and always to have been within the lawful jurisdiction of the tribunal by which the same was passed or made.