HC Deb 26 July 1949 vol 467 c2250

Message from His Majesty brought up, and read by Mr. SPEAKER, as follows:

His Majesty, by Proclamation, dated the eleventh day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, having declared the existence of a state of emergency for the purposes of the Emergency Powers Act, 1920:

And it having appeared to His Majesty that the state of emergency has now ceased to exist:

His Majesty has deemed it proper by Proclamation, dated the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, to proclaim, direct and ordain that the said Proclamation of the eleventh day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, is revoked.

Message to be considered Tomorrow.—[The Prime Minister.]