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Emergency Powers Act 1964 1964 c.38 An Act to amend the Emergency Powers Act 1920 and make permanent the Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939. [10th June 1964]
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Emergency Powers Act 1964
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1 Amendment of s. 1(1) of Emergency Powers Act 1920.
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The Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939 in the form set out in Part C of Schedule 2 to the Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959 (which regulations enable the temporary employment in agricultural work or in other work, being urgent work of national importance, of members of the armed forces of the Crown to be authorised) shall become permanent.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Emergency Powers Act 1964. (2) Section 1 of this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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