No. 300/1940:

AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS ACT, 1939 (GRANTS UNDER SECTION 58) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1940.

AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS ACT, 1939 (GRANTS UNDER SECTION 58) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1940.

I, SEÁN MOYLAN, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister for Defence by section 58 of the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939), and delegated to me under section 6 of the Emergency Powers Act, 1939 (No. 28 of 1939), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, testified by his signature hereto, make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939 (Grants under section 58) (Amendment) Regulations, 1940.

2. The definition of the expression " the normal number of employees " contained in paragraph (6) of Regulation 3 of the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939 (Grants under section 58) Regulations, 1940 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 83 of 1940), is hereby amended by the substitution in the said definition of the words " an auditor approved by the Minister " for the words " a public auditor, appointed for the purposes of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893," and the said Regulation shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

Given under my hand this 1st day of October, 1940.

(Signed) SEÁN MOYLAN,

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence

I consent to the foregoing Regulations.

(Signed) SEÁN T. O CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Finance.