Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

Duty of essential undertakers to assist in arrangements for evacuation of civil population.

40.—It shall be the duty of every essential undertaker, at the request and in accordance with the directions of the Minister, to collect and furnish to him such information as he may require for the purpose of assisting the preparation by the Government of plans for the transference of members of the civil population from one area to another in the event of attack from the air.