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)
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)