Restoration of Order in Ireland (Indemnity) Act 1923
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1923 c. 12 |
| Year | 1923 |
Restoration of Order in Ireland (Indemnity) Act, 1923
(13 & 14 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 12.
An Act to prohibit the institution and prosecution of legal proceedings in respect of action taken under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations, and to make provision as to claims for compensation by persons affected.
[7th June 1923]
Be 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:—
1 Indemnity for action taken under Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations.
(1) No action or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall be instituted in any court of law against any person for, or on account of, or in respect of the issue before the passing of this Act and since the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, of any order purporting to have been made in pursuance of regulation 14 B. made or purporting to have been made under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act, 1920 , or for, on account of, or in respect of any act done before the passing of this Act for the purpose of carrying any such order into effect; and if any such proceeding has been instituted, whether before or after the passing of this Act, it shall be discharged and made void, subject in the case of a proceeding instituted before the seventeenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, to such directions as to costs as the court or a judge thereof may think fit to give:
Provided that any person who, in pursuance of any such order, has been deported to Ireland since the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and therein interned shall be entitled within three months after the passing of this Act to claim against such person as may be designated for the purpose by the Treasury compensation for any loss or damage he may have sustained in consequence of such deportation and internment, or of any act done for the purpose of carrying such order into effect, and the amount of such compensation shall be assessed on the principles on which damages would be assessed at common law in a common law action for trespass but without regard to any statutory minimum, or in Scotland for wrongous imprisonment or assault, and awarded by a tribunal consisting of three persons (of whom one shall be a...
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