Control of Exports Act, 1983

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Prohibition of exportation of goods.

2.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order prohibit, subject to such exceptions, if any, as he may think proper, the exportation of goods of any specified description, save under and in accordance with a licence.

(2) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by order prohibit, subject to such exceptions, if any, as he may think proper, the exportation of goods of any specified description to a specified destination, save under and in accordance with a licence.

(3) An order under this section may make provision for such other matters as appear to the Minister necessary for securing the due operation and enforcement of the order.

(4) The Minister may revoke or amend an order made under this section including this subsection.

(5) 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 that order is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after that order is laid before it, such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that order.