PUTTING PART II IN FORCE

BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Act, 1926 (No. 42 of 1926), that if at any time the Executive Council is of opinion that a national emergency has arisen of such character that it is expedient in the public interest that the provisions of Part II of that Act should be put into force, the Executive Council may by proclamation declare that a state of national emergency exists, and it is by the said Act further enacted that, if at the time when such proclamation is made the Oireachtas stands adjourned to a day and hour more than five days after the making of the proclamation, the proclamation shall be expressed and shall operate to summon the Oireachtas to reassemble at a convenient hour to be specified in the proclamation on a convenient day to be similarly specified not less than three nor more than five days after the making of the proclamation.

AND WHEREAS the Executive Council is of opinion that such national emergency as is mentioned in the said Act has arisen.

AND WHEREAS at the time of the making of this proclamation Dáil Eireann stands adjourned to the 30th day of November, 1926, and Seanad Eireann stands adjourned without any day being fixed for the reassembly thereof.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Executive Council, being of opinion that a national emergency has arisen of such character that it is expedient in the public interest that the provisions of Part II of the Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Act, 1926 (No. 42 of 1926) should be put into force, do hereby in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred on them by the said Act, declare that a state of national emergency exists. And do hereby in further exercise of the said powers, summon the Oireachtas to reassemble at three o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, the 24th day of November, 1926.

Dublin, this 20th day of November, 1926.

(Signed) LIAM T. MAC COSGAIR.