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Number 40 of 1935.


LEAGUE OF NATIONS (OBLIGATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP) ACT, 1935.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Powers of the Executive Council.

3.

Amendment and revocation of orders.

4.

Saving for religious and humanitarian bodies.

5.

Offences and penalties.

6.

Laying of Orders before the Oireachtas.

7.

Short title.

SCHEDULE.

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Number 40 of 1935.


LEAGUE OF NATIONS (OBLIGATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP) ACT, 1935.


AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO TAKE MEASURES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT CERTAIN OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [15th November, 1935.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS of SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

Definitions.

1. —In this Act—

the expression “the Co-ordination Committee” means the Committee set up by Members of the League of Nations to consider and facilitate the co-ordination of measures to be taken by such Members in execution of their obligations under Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations;

the expression “the Scheduled Proposals” means the Proposals (set out in the Schedule to this Act) adopted by the Co-ordination Committee.

Powers of the Executive Council.

2. —(1) For the purpose of giving effect to the Scheduled Proposals, so far as the same are to be carried out by the Government of Saorstát Eireann, the Executive Council may by order take all such measures, impose all such prohibitions and restrictions, and do all such things as shall, in the opinion of the Executive Council, be necessary in order to carry into effective execution all or any of the measures mentioned in the Scheduled Proposals.

(2) Whenever the Executive Council makes an order under the foregoing sub-section of this section the Executive Council may, by the same or any subsequent order, provide for all such matters and do all such things as shall, in the opinion of the Executive Council, be ancillary or incidental to or necessary for the enforcement of all or any of the provisions of the said order so made under the said sub-section.

Amendment and revocation of orders.

3. —The Executive Council may by order at any time amend or revoke as they shall think proper any order previously made by the Executive Council, under this Act, including an order made under this section.

Saving for religious and humanitarian bodies.

4. —No order made by the Executive Council under this Act prohibiting or restricting any of the transactions mentioned in Proposal II of the Scheduled Proposals shall apply to or affect any transaction with or for the benefit of any religious or humanitarian body or organisation.

Offences and penalties.

5. —(1) Every person who shall do any act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of an order made by the Executive Council under this Act shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or

(b) on conviction thereof on indictment, to a fine of such amount as the Court shall think proper or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, or to penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment or penal servitude.

(2) If a company or other body corporate commits an offence under this section, every director, manager, and other officer of such body corporate who knowingly and wilfully authorised or permitted such default shall also be guilty of an offence under this section and shall, on conviction thereof, be punishable accordingly.

Laying of Orders before the Oireachtas.

6. —Every order made by the Executive Council under this Act shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.

Short title.

7. —This Act may be cited as the League of Nations (Obligations of Membership) Act, 1935.