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An Act to repeal certain emergency laws and, in particular, the enactments providing for the continuation of Defence Regulations; to continue in force for a limited period and with modifications certain Defence Regulations and other emergency provisions; to give permanent effect to an emergency provision; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[25th March 1959]
F1Ss. 1, 2 repealed by Emergency Laws (Re-enactments and Repeals) Act 1964 (c. 60), s. 22, Sch. 2
F1Ss. 3, 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
F1S. 5 repealed by Emergency Laws (Re-enactments and Repeals) Act 1964 (c. 60), s. 22, Sch. 2
In the M1Government and other Stocks (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939, section one (which makes provision for rendering inscribed stock transferable by instrument in writing) shall have permanent effect . . . F1
F1Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt XI
M11939 c. 100.
Any expenses incurred by any government department which are attributable to the provisions of this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
F1S. 8(1) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F2Ss. 8(2) repealed by Emergency Laws (Re-enactments and Repeals) Act 1964 (c. 60), s. 22, Sch. 2
F1S. 9 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI
(1)This Act may be cited as the Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959.
(2)The provisions of this Act, other than sections . . . F1 six therefore and this section, shall continue in force only until the expiration of the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and shall then expire; and [F2sections sixteen (1) and seventeen (2)(a) of the M1Interpretation Act 1978], shall apply upon the expiration of those provisions as if those provisions had then been repealed.
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959