No. 476/1942:

IRISH UNIVERSITIES ACT, 1908, ADAPTATION ORDER, 1942.

IRISH UNIVERSITIES ACT, 1908, ADAPTATION ORDER, 1942.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 12 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, that the Government may from time to time by order make all such general or specific adaptations of or modifications in any British statute which, in the opinion of the Government, are necessary in order to enable such statute to have full force and effect in the State :

AND WHEREAS the Irish Universities Act, 1908, is a British statute within the meaning of the said Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 :

AND WHEREAS the adaptation of the said Irish Universities Act, 1908, made by this Order is, in the opinion of the Government, necessary in order to enable that Act to have full force and effect in the State :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 12 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows, that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Irish Universities Act, 1908, Adaptation Order, 1942.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to this Order.

3. Subsection (2) of section 5 of the Irish Universities Act, 1908, is hereby adapted by the deletion of the words " any period of prorogation " and the insertion, in lieu of those words, of the words " any period of twenty-one or more consecutive days on which Dáil Eireann has not sat."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 9th day of November, 1942.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.