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 of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:15,16.