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Emergency Powers (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1942

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Number 19 of 1942.

EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE AND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1942.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I.

Preliminary.

Section

1.

Short title.

2.

The Principal Act.

3.

Repeal of the Emergency Powers (Continuance) Act, 1941.

PART II.

Continuance of the Principal Act.

4.

Continuance of the Principal Act.

PART III.

Amendment and Extension of the Principal Act.

5.

Definitions in Part III.

6.

General powers of the Government under section 2 of the Principal Act.

7.

Retrospective amendment of Government orders and subsidiary instruments.

8.

Amendment of section 5 of the Principal Act.

9.

Penalty for continued non-compliance with certain orders.

10.

Amendment of section 6 of the Principal Act.

11.

Duration of Part III.

12.

Collective citation of Emergency Powers Acts, 1939 and 1940, and Part III.

Acts Referred to

Emergency Powers Act, 1939

No. 28 of 1939

Emergency Powers (Continuance) Act, 1941

No. 16 of 1941

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Number 19 of 1942.

EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE AND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1942.

AN ACT TO EXTEND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE STATE IN TIME OF WAR, THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1939 , SHALL REMAIN IN FORCE AND TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SAID ACT FOR THE PURPOSE AFORESAID. [29th July, 1942.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—