No. 244/1938:

POLICE FORCES AMALGAMATION ACT, 1925, ADAPTATION ORDER, 1938.

POLICE FORCES AMALGAMATION ACT, 1925, ADAPTATION ORDER, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 40 of 1937), that for the purpose of ensuring that the laws in force in Saorstát Eireann immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution shall continue to be of full force and effect in accordance with and to the extent provided by Article 50 of the Constitution, the Government may by order make all such general or specific adaptations and modifications of any statute or statutory instrument continued in force by the said Article 50 as shall, in the opinion of the Government, be necessary for the purpose aforesaid :

AND WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Government, the adaptation intended to be made by this Order of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), being an Act continued in force by Article 50 of the Constitution, is necessary for the purpose of ensuring that that Act shall continue to be of full force and effect in accordance with and to the extent provided by the said Article 50 :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 40 of 1937), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 , Adaptation Order, 1938.

2. The Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), is hereby adapted by the substitution, in the form of declaration contained in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act, of—

(a) the word " Government " for the expression " Executive Council " in the place where that expression occurs,

(b) the word " Ireland " for the expression " Saorstát Eireann " in both places where that expression occurs.

DUBLIN.

This 18th day of October, 1938.