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Defence of the Realm (Employment Exchanges) Act 1918

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved


Defence of the Realm (Employment Exchanges) Act, 1918

(8 & 9 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 58.

An Act to authorise the taking possession of premises required, in connection with schemes of demobilisation, for Employment Exchanges and other purposes of the Ministry of Labour.

[21st November 1918]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Power to take possession of premises for employmen exchanges.

1 Power to take possession of premises for employmen exchanges.

1. The power of making regulations under the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall include power to make regulations authorising the Commissioners of Works, or, as respects Ireland, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, with the consent of the Treasury, to take possession of any land, including buildings thereon, which the Minister of Labour may certify to be required, in connection with any scheme of demobilisation, for the purposes of employment exchanges or the accommodation of the staff of any department of the Ministry constituted for reinstating in civil life persons who, during the present war, have been serving in His Majesty's forces or otherwise engaged in work of national importance.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theDefence of the Realm (Employment Exchanges) Act, 1918.

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