Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

PART II.

Powers and Duties of Local Authorities.

“Scheduled urban areas.”

10.—(1) Each of the following areas shall be a scheduled urban area for the purposes of this Part of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) subject to the operation of an order made by the Minister under sub-section (2) of this section, any area specified in the Schedule to this Act,

(b) any borough or urban district declared by an order made by the Minister under sub-section (3) of this section and for the time being in force to be a scheduled urban area for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

(2) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order under this sub-section declare that any area specified in the Schedule to this Act shall cease to be a scheduled urban area for the purposes of this Part of this Act and upon the coming into operation of such order such area shall shall cease to be a scheduled urban area for the said purposes.

(3) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order under this sub-section declare that any borough or urban district shall be a scheduled urban area for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

(4) The Minister may by order under this sub-section revoke any order made by him under the immediately preceding sub-section.

(5) Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section in relation to any borough or urban district he may by such order provide for all such matters (including the transfer to or from the council of such borough or urban district from or to the council of the county of which such borough or urban district forms part of any land or other property acquired for the purposes of their functions under this Part of this Act by the council of such county or the council of such borough or urban district, and the making of provision for financial adjustments between such councils) as he thinks necessary or expedient for giving full effect to such order.

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