No. 326/1943:

AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS SCHEMES (PRESCRIBED PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 3) REGULATIONS, 1943.

AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS SCHEMES (PRESCRIBED PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 3) REGULATIONS, 1943.

I, FRANK AIKEN, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister for Defence by section 36 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), as amended by Section 10 of the Emergency Powers (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1942 (No. 19 of 1942), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby, with the concurrence 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 Schemes (Prescribed Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1943.

2. The Air-raid Precautions Schemes (Prescribed Provisions) Regulations, 1939 ( S. R. & O. No. 238 of 1939 ), as amended by the Air-raid Precautions Schemes (Prescribed Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1941 ( S. R. & O. No. 264 of 1941 ), and the Air-raid Precautions Schemes (Prescribed Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1942 ( S. R. & O. No. 58 of 1942 ), are hereby amended in the following respects and shall be construed and have effect accordingly, that is to say :—

(a) by the insertion at the end of Regulation 3 of the following additional paragraph, that is to say :—

" (y) the provision, at such charges as may be approved by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, of accommodation for persons rendered homeless consequent on attack from the air." ;

(b) by the insertion at the end of Regulation 4 of the following additional paragraph, that is to say :—

" (s) the provision, at such charges as may be approved by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, of accommodation for persons rendered homeless consequent on attack from the air.".

GIVEN under my hand this 30th day of September, 1943.

(Signed) FRANK AIKEN,

Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures.

I concur in the making of the foregoing Regulations.

(Signed) SEÁN T. Ó CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Finance.