Emergency Powers (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1945
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Further restriction on making orders under section 2 of the Principal Act. |
6.—(1) Nothing in section 2 of the Principal Act shall be construed as authorising the Government by order under the said section— | |
(a) to authorise and provide for the censorship, restriction, control, or partial or complete suspension of communication by means of all or one or more of the services maintained or controlled by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs or by any other means, whether public or private, or | ||
(b) to make provision for prohibiting the publication or spreading of any matter, or to authorise or provide for the control and censorship of newspapers and periodicals, or | ||
(c) to authorise and provide for the censorship of pictures, or | ||
(d) to authorise and provide for the prohibition, restriction or control of the entry of natural-born Irish citizens into the State or the movements of natural-born Irish citizens within the State, or | ||
(e) to authorise and provide for the detention of natural-born Irish citizens, or | ||
(f) to authorise the arrest without warrant of natural-born Irish citizens, or | ||
(g) to authorise and provide for the searching of natural-born Irish citizens, or | ||
(h) to suspend the operation of or amend or apply (with or without modification) the Principal Act, the Act of 1942, or this Act. | ||
(2) In this section the word “pictures” has the same meaning as in the Censorship of Films Acts, 1923 to 1930. |