S.I. No. 104/1940 - Defence Forces (Billeting Requisitions) Order, 1940.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1940. No. 104.

DEFENCE FORCES (BILLETING REQUISITIONS) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 173 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), (as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution) that the Government may at any time or times by order declare that a state of emergency exists in Ireland, or in any parts or part (to be specified in such order) thereof and may by the same order authorise any officer, not below the rank of Commandant, to be named in such order, commanding any part of the Forces in any part of Ireland in which a state of emergency is by such order declared to exist, to issue a billeting requisition under the said section 173.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Government in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sub-section (1) of section 173 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), (as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution) and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1.—This Order may be cited as the Defence Forces (Billeting Requisitions) Order, 1940.

2.—The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3.—It is hereby declared that a state of emergency exists in Ireland.

4.—Each of the officers named in the Schedule hereto is hereby authorised to issue a billeting requisition under section 173 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923).

5.—The Defence Forces (Billeting Requisitions) Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders No. 223 of 1939), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

Major-General Joseph Aloysius Sweeney,

Commanding troops quartered within the Western Command.

Colonel William Hoolan,

Commanding troops quartered within the Eastern Command.

Colonel Michael Joseph Costello,

Commanding troops quartered within the Southern Command.

Colonel James O'Higgins,

Commanding troops quartered within the Curragh Command.

Given under the Official Seal of the Government this 16th day of April, 1940.