Consular Conventions Act, 1954

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Application of Sections 3 to 11.

2.—(1) Sections 3 to 11 shall not apply in respect of any country save to such extent as they are so applied by order under this section for the time being in force.

(2) Whenever the Government are satisfied that, in a consular convention country, powers, privileges and immunities similar to those conferred by any of the provisions of sections 3 to 11 are conceded in respect of the State, the Government may by order apply all or any of these provisions in respect of that country.

(3) The Government may by order revoke an order under subsection (2).

(4) Every order made 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 House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.