No. 205/1947:

OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE (SCHEDULED OFFENCES) (No. 4) ORDER, 1947.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE (SCHEDULED OFFENCES) (No. 4) ORDER, 1947.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 36 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 (No. 13 of 1939), that whenever while Part V of the said Act is in force the Government is satisfied that the ordinary courts are inadequate to secure the effective administration of justice and the preservation of public peace and order in relation to offences under any particular enactment, the Government may by order declare that offences under that particular enactment shall be scheduled offences for the purposes of the said Part of the said Act :

AND WHEREAS Part V of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 , is in force :

AND WHEREAS the Government is satisfied that the ordinary courts are inadequate to secure the effective administration of Justice and the preservation of public peace and order in relation to the offences specified in the Appendix hereto :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 36 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 (No. 13 of 1939), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Offences Against the State (Scheduled Offences) (No. 4) Order, 1947.

2. It is hereby declared that the offences specified in the Appendix hereto shall be scheduled offences for the purposes of Part V of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 (No. 13 of 1939).

APPENDIX

Offences under section 6 of the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946), by the contravention of a provision of any one or more of the following orders:—

Emergency Powers (Control of Fuel) Order, 1941 (S. R. & O., No. 411 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Fuel) Order, 1941 (First Amendment) Order, 1941 (S. R. & O., No. 454 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Fuel) Order, 1941 (Fifth Amendment) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O., No. 225 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Fuel) Order, 1941 (Seventh Amendment) Order, 1943 (S. R. & O., No. 53 of 1943).

The Emergency Powers (Control of Fuel) Order 1941 (Ninth Amendment) Order, 1947 (S. R. & O., No. 89 of 1947).

The Firewood (Maximum Prices) Order, 1947 (S. R. & O., No. 45 of 1947).

The Fuel (Rationing for April and May, 1947), Order, 1947, (S. R. & O., No. 99 of 1947).

Emergency Powers (Restriction on Movement of Turf) Order, 1943 (S. R. & O., No. 49 of 1943).

Emergency Powers (Restriction on Movement of Turf) Order 1943 (Amendment) Order, 1946 (S. R. & O., No. 240 of 1946).

Emergency Powers (Turf) (Maximum Prices) Order, 1946 (S. R. & O., No. 150 of 1946).

Emergency Powers (Returns Relating to Cargoes of Fuel) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O., No. 124 of 1944).

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government this 25th day of April, 1947.

(SGD.) EAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.