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Peace Preservation (Ireland) Continuance Act 1886

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Peace Preservation (Ireland) Continuance Act, 1886

(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 24.

An Act to continue and amend for a further limited period the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1881.

[4th June 1886]

B E it enacted by the Queen'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 Short title.

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as thePeace Preservation (Ireland) Continuance Act, 1886.

S-2 Continuance of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 5.

2 Continuance of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 5.

(1)2.—(1.) The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1881, shall be continued until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

(2) (2.) Every Proclamation and Order made, and every notice and licence issued, and everything done, under the authority of that Act, shall be of the same force and effect as if that Act had been originally limited to continue until the said thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, save that sub-section four of section four of the said Act shall not be continued.

Provided that from and after the passing of this Act the court of summary jurisdiction mentioned in the fifth section of the said Act shall (elsewhere than in the police district of Dublin metropolis) be constituted of two or more resident magistrates sitting alone in petty sessions.

S-3 Publication of monthly returns.

3 Publication of monthly returns.

3. There shall be published monthly in the ‘Dublin Gazette’ a return of the counties proclaimed, with the number of search warrants granted, the number of prosecutions ordered and the results, the number of licences refused, the number granted, and the character of the weapons licensed, distinguishing each county separately:

The return for the first month after the passing of this Act shall show for each county the number of existing licences, the character of the weapons licensed, and the number of search warrants granted.

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