Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, 1956

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Number 27 of 1956.


PRISONERS OF WAR AND ENEMY ALIENS ACT, 1956.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation

2.

Internment

3.

General power to give effect to certain portions of the Conventions

4.

Prisoner of war to be person subject to military law

5.

Provisions with respect to sentences and penalties

6.

Power to require enemy aliens to reside or remain in particular places

7.

Military tribunal in case of charge against interned enemy alien

8.

Assisting escape

9.

Consent of Minister for Finance to certain regulations

10.

Laying of regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas

11.

Expenses

12.

Short title


Acts Referred to

Defence Act, 1954

No. 18 of 1954

Aliens Act, 1935

No. 14 of 1935

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Number 27 of 1956.


PRISONERS OF WAR AND ENEMY ALIENS ACT, 1956.


AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE INTERNMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND ENEMY ALIENS AND TO ENABLE, SO FAR AS IRELAND IS CONCERNED, EFFECT TO BE GIVEN TO AND ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THE CONVENTIONS RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR WHICH WERE SIGNED ON BEHALF OF IRELAND AT GENEVA ON THE 19TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1949. [17th July, 1956.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—