Offences Against the State Act 1939

Orders and sentences of Special Criminal Courts.

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50.(1) Save as shall be otherwise provided by regulations made under this section, every order made or sentence pronounced by a Special Criminal Court shall be carried out by the authorities and officers by whom, and in the like manner as, a like order made or sentence pronounced by the Central Criminal Court is required by law to be carried out.

(2) Every order, conviction, and sentence made or pronounced by a Special Criminal Court shall have the like consequences in law as a like order, conviction, or sentence made or pronounced by the Central Criminal Court would have and, in particular, every order made and every sentence pronounced by a Special Criminal Court shall confer on the persons carrying out the same the like protections and immunities as are conferred by law on such persons when carrying out a like order made or a like sentence pronounced by the Central Criminal Court.

(3) The Minister for Justice may make regulations in relation to the carrying out of sentences of penal servitude or of imprisonment pronounced by Special Criminal Courts and the prisons and other places in which persons so sentenced shall be imprisoned and the maintenance and management of such places, and the said Minister may also, if he so thinks proper, make by writing under his hand such special provision as he shall think fit in relation to the carrying out of any such sentence in respect of any particular individual, including transferring to military custody any particular individual so sentenced.

(4) The Minister for Defence may make regulations in relation to the places and the manner generally in which persons transferred to military custody under the next preceding sub-section of this section shall be kept in such custody, and the said Minister may also, if he so thinks proper, make by writing under his hand such special provision as he shall think fit in respect of the custody of any particular such person.

Annotations

Editorial Notes:

E33

Power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (30.08.1946) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 1946 (S.I. No. 279 of 1946).

E34

Power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (5.05.1942) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1942 (S.I. No. 182 of 1942).

E35

Power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (29.06.1940) by Offences, Against The State Act, 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1940 (S.I. No. 178 of 1940).

E36

Power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (19.04.1940) by Offences Against The State Act, 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 1940 (S.I. No. 106 of 1940).

E37

Power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (16.10.1939) by Offences Against The State Act, 1939 (Military Custody) Regulations 1939 (S.I. No. 288 of 1939).

E38

Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (13.08.1942) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1942 (S.I. No. 338 of 1942); revoked (30.08.1946) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 1946 (S.I. No. 279 of 1946), reg. 5.

E39

Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (4) exercised (10.10.1940) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1940 (S.I. No. 297 of 1940); revoked (13.08.1942) by Offences Against The State Act 1939 (Military Custody) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1942 (S.I. No. 338 of 1942, reg. 5.