Number 21/1939: AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS ACT, 1939

Next (PART I. Preliminary and General.)

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Number 21 of 1939.

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AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS ACT, 1939.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Section
1.	Short title.
2.	Definitions generally.
3.	“Local authorities”.
4.	“Essential undertakers.”
5.	Offences by bodies corporate.
6.	Prosecution of offences.
7.	Service of documents.
8.	Laying of regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.
9.	Expenses of the Minister.

PART II.

Powers and Duties of Local Authorities.

10.	“Scheduled urban areas”.
11.	Scheme-making local authorities, and their functional areas.

Air-raid Precautions Schemes.

12.	Duty of scheme-making local authorities to prepare air-raid precautions schemes.
13.	Approval, effect, revocation and amendment of air-raid precautions schemes.
14.	Duty of local authorities and their officers to assist scheme-making local authorities in the preparation of air-raid precautions schemes.
15.	Duty of local authorities and their officers and servants to carry out Act and air-raid precautions schemes.
16.	Duty of local authorities to co-operate.
17.	Acquisition of land by local authorities for purposes of air-raid precautions schemes.
18.	Payment and ascertainment of compensation for land acquired by local authorities.
19.	Repayment by local authorities of State grants in respect of acquisition of land.

Public Air-raid Shelters.

20.	Register of designation notices.
21.	Designation of premises.
22.	Appeal from designation of premises.
23.	Execution of works.
24.	Compensation where works are executed.
25.	Designated premises to remain unaltered.
26.	Provisions in relation to appeals to the Minister.
27.	Requisition of designated premises.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

28.	Duty of local authorities and their officers to assist in arrangements for evacuation of civil population.
29.	Dissolution of defaulting local authorities.
30.	Determination of disputes.
31.	Appointment of officers and servants.
32.	Penalty for default by officers and servants of local authorities.
33.	Power of officers of local authorities to enter premises.

Financial Provisions.

34.	Expenses of local authorities.
35.	State grants to local authorities.

Regulations.

36.	Regulations for purposes of Part II.

PART III.

Powers and Duties of Essential Undertakers.

37.	Duty of essential undertakers to prepare schemes.
38.	Approval, effect, revocation and amendment of air-raid precautions (essential undertaker's) schemes.
39.	Duty of essential undertakers and their officers and servants to carry out Act and air-raid precautions schemes.
40.	Duty of essential undertakers to assist in arrangements for evacuation of civil population.
41.	Penalty for default by essential undertakers and their officers and servants.
42.	Bye-laws by essential undertakers.
43.	Acquisition of land by essential undertakers.
44.	Expenditure by essential undertakers.
45.	Removal of restrictions on powers of essential undertakers.
46.	State grants to essential undertakers.
47.	Repayment by essential undertakers of State grants in respect of acquisition of land.
48.	Regulations for purposes of Part III.

PART IV.

Obscuration of Lights and Camouflage.

49.	General duty of occupiers of factories, owners of mines and essential undertakers.
50.	Provisions as to processes involving flames or glare.
51.	Camouflage.
52.	State grants under Part IV.
53.	Penalties for failure to comply with notice.
54.	Saving for Part III.
55.	Powers of entry on premises.
56.	Provisions as to practice of dimming lights by local authorities.

PART V.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

57.	Requisition of premises by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.
58.	State grants in respect of provision of air-raid shelter by certain employers.
59.	Relief of air-raid protection works from rates.
60.	Provision by the Minister of services, training and air-raid precautions equipment.
61.	Regulations as to storage, etc., of air-raid precautions equipment.
62.	Penalty for damaging air-raid precautions equipment.
63.	Regulation of importation and sale of air-raid precautions equipment.
64.	Compensation in the event of injury to persons engaged in air-raid precautions activities.
65.	Removal of pictures from the National Gallery.

SCHEDULE.

Scheduled Urban Areas.

Acts Referred to
Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928	No. 4 of 1928
Acquisition of Land (Reference Committee) Act, 1925	No. 22 of 1925
Local Government Act, 1925	No. 5 of 1925
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926	No. 39 of 1926

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Number 21 of 1939.

AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS ACT, 1939.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE TAKING OF PRECAUTIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF PROTECTING PERSONS AND PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF ATTACK FROM THE AIR AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [26th July, 1939.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—