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Commencement and cesser.
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1.—(1) This Act shall not come into or be in operation save as and when and for so long as is provided by the subsequent subsections of this section.
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(2) Whenever and so often as the Government are satisfied that, in consequence of a trade dispute, there is a serious disruption of electricity supplies or imminent danger of such disruption, the Government may by order declare that they are satisfied as aforesaid and appoint a day on which this Act shall come into operation.
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(3) Whenever and as often as the Government make an order under subsection (2) of this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day appointed for that purpose by the order.
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(4) Whenever and so often as the Government are satisfied, at a time when an order under subsection (2) of this section is in force, that this Act should cease to be in operation, the Government shall by order revoke the order under the said subsection (2) and thereupon this Act shall forthwith cease to be in operation.
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(5) If at any time when an order is made under subsection (2) of this section, the Oireachtas or either House thereof stands adjourned to a day and hour more than seven days after the making of the order, the order shall be expressed and shall operate to summon the Oireachtas or such House thereof, as the case may be, to reassemble at a convenient hour to be specified in the order on a convenient day to be similarly specified not less than three nor more than five days after the making of the order, and in every such case the Oireachtas or such House thereof, as the case may be, shall reassemble on the day and at the hour so specified as if it had stood adjourned to that day and hour.
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(6) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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