The title Emergency Powers Act has been included in the name of various UK laws:
- Emergency Powers Act 1920
- Emergency Powers Act (Northern Ireland) 1926
- Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939
- Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1940
- Emergency Powers Act 1964
- Emergency Powers (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1964
and this law enacted by the Oireachtas (Irish parliament):
- Emergency Powers Act 1939
Famous quotes containing the words emergency, powers and/or act:
“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view “realistically”; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent—war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 13:1.
“We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)