[5 GEO. 5.] Defence of the Realm (Amendment),
No. 2, Act, 1915.
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[CH. 37.]
CHAPTER 37.
An Act to amend the Defence of the Realm Consolidation A.D. 1915.
Act, 1914.
[16th March 1915.]
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:-
I.—(1) Subsection (3) of section one of the Defence of the Powers for Realm Consolidation Act, 1914 (which gives power to take pos- expediting session and use for the purpose of His Majesty's naval and of war
production military services certain factories or workshops or the plant material. thereof), shall apply to any factory or workshop of whatever 5 Gen. 5, c, 8. sort, or the plant thereof; and that subsection shall be read as if the following paragraphs were added after paragraph (b):-
"(c) to require any work in any factory or workshop to be done in accordance with the directions of the Ad- miralty or Army Council, given with the object of making the factory or workshop, or the plant or labour therein, as useful as possible for the production of war material; and
"(d) to regulate or restrict the carrying on of work in any factory or workshop, or remove the plant there- from, with a view to increasing the production of war material in other factories or workshops; and "(e) to take possession of any unoccupied premises for the purpose of housing workmen employed in the pro- duction, storage, or transport of war material." (2) It is hereby declared that where the fulfilment by any person of any contract is interfered with by the necessity on the part of himself or any other person of complying with any
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