Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

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Approval, effect, revocation and amendment of air-raid precautions schemes.

13.—(1) When an air-raid precautions scheme is submitted to the Minister under this Act, the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, may, with or without modifications, approve thereof, and such scheme shall, upon being so approved come into force on such date as may be specified in such scheme as so approved, and different dates may be so specified for different provisions of such scheme.

(2) Where an air-raid precautions scheme is submitted by a scheme-making local authority to the Minister under this Part of this Act, the Minister may, in lieu of approving of such scheme, require such authority to prepare, in accordance with any directions given by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, a new air-raid precautions scheme and submit it to him.

(3) The Minister may at any time revoke an air-raid precautions scheme which is in force.

(4) Any air-raid precautions scheme in force may be amended by a subsequent air-raid precautions scheme submitted and approved in the same manner as the original scheme.

(5) Where an air-raid precautions scheme is in force the scheme-making local authority by whom such scheme was submitted shall, if so required by the Minister, prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme for the amendment thereof in accordance with any directions given by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.