No. 182/1945:

OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1940 (INTERNMENT COMMISSION) ORDER, 1945.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1940 (INTERNMENT COMMISSION) ORDER, 1945.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 8 of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, 1940 (No. 2 of 1940), that, as soon as conveniently may be after Part II of that Act comes into force, the Government shall set up a Commission to perform the functions imposed on such Commission by that section, and that the members of such Commission shall be appointed by the Government :

AND WHEREAS the said Part II of the said Act came into force on the 24th day of July, 1945 :

NOW, the Government, in pursuance of section 8 of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, 1940 (No. 2 of 1940), and in exercise of the powers conferred by that section 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 (Amendment) Act, 1940 (Internment Commission) Order, 1945.

2. The Commission required by section 8 of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, 1940 (No. 2 of 1940), to be set up is hereby set up and shall be known and is in this Order referred to as the Internment Commission.

3. The following persons are hereby appointed to be members of the Internment Commission, that is to say :—

William B. Black, Judge of the Supreme Court.

John V. Joyce, Colonel in the Defence Forces.

George Hodnett, Barrister-at-law and Colonel in the Defence Forces.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 24th day of July, 1945.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.