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1 1949

DEFENCE FORCES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1949

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Short title and collective citation.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1949.

(2) The Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1923 to 1948, and this Act may be cited together as the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1923 to 1949.

Definitions and construction.

2. —(1) In this Act—

the expression “the Acts” means the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1923 to 1948;

the expression “the Principal Act” means the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), as amended by any subsequent enactment.

(2) The Acts and this Act shall be read and construed together and accordingly any word and expression used in this Act to which a particular meaning is given by the Acts has in this Act the meaning so given.

Continuance of the Acts.

3. —The Acts, as amended and extended by this Act, shall continue in force until midnight on the 31st day of March, 1950, and shall then expire.

Repeals.

4. —The enactment mentioned in the second column of the Schedule to this Act is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the said Schedule.