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Making of regulations pursuant to proclamation.
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2.—(1) Whenever a proclamation is made by the Executive Council under this Act, the Executive Council may while such proclamation remains in force make by order such regulations as they shall think proper for—
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(a) ensuring the due supply and distribution of the essentials of life to the community,
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(b) restricting the accumulation by unauthorised persons of undue stocks of food, fuel, or other necessaries,
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(c) preventing the withholding of any such necessaries from the community,
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(d) regulating and controlling the prices charged by traders (whether wholesale or retail), distributors, and others for any such necessaries or for the carriage or distribution thereof,
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(e) conferring on such persons (whether in the service or not in the service of the State) as the Executive Council shall think proper such powers and authorities for the carrying out and enforcement of the regulations as the Executive Council shall think proper,
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(f) providing for any matter or thing ancillary or incidental to any of the matters aforesaid and in particular any matter or thing necessary for or incidental to the regulation and control of the supply and distribution of food, fuel, and other necessaries to the community,
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(g) providing that any breach or contravention of any such regulation shall be an offence triable summarily and prescribing the punishments which may be inflicted by courts of summary jurisdiction on persons convicted by such courts of any such offence but so that no such punishment shall exceed imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term of six months or a fine of fifty pounds or both such imprisonment and such fine, together with, in any case, forfeiture of any money or goods in respect of which the offence was committed.
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(2) All regulations made under this section shall while they remain in force have effect as if enacted in this Act, but no such regulation shall continue in force after the expiration of the proclamation pursuant to which it is made save so far as may be necessary for the trial under the regulation of persons accused of having committed before the expiration of the proclamation a breach or contravention of the regulation and for the punishment of such persons (if convicted) under and in accordance with the regulation.
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(3) Every regulation made under this section shall be forthwith published in the Iris Oifigiúil and shall also be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if either such House shall, within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat, pass a resolution annulling such regulation such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.
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