§ Areas.
§ The Dublin Metropolitan Police District.
§ The County of the City of Belfast.
§ NOTICE.—In the Dublin Metropolitan Police District the application for a Permit should be made to the Superintendent of the Division in which the applicant resides. In other parts of Ireland the application should be made to the District Inspector, Royal Irish Constabulary, of the District in which the applicant resides.
§ Note.—The following are the provisions of Regulation 9 AA of the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations, so far as they are material to this Order:—
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9 AA.—(1) The Competent Naval or Military Authority may make Orders prohibiting or restricting:—
(e) the having, keeping or using of a motor cycle or motor car by any person, other than a
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member of His Majesty's Forces, or of the Forces of any of His Majesty's Allies, or a Police Constable, without a permit from the Competent Naval or Military Authority, or from the chief officer of the police in the District in which the person resides.
§ (2)Any Order under this Regulation may be made so as to apply generally to the whole of the area aforesaid or to any special localities in that area, and so as to prohibit all or any of the acts and matters aforesaid absolutely or subject to such exceptions or save upon such conditions as may be specified therein.
§ (3)If any person contravenes, or fails to comply with, any provision of any Order made under this Regulation, or fails to comply with any Condition subject to which anything is authorised under any such Order, he shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.
§ (4)The Competent Naval or Military Authority or any person authorised by him, or any Police Constable (without prejudice to the powers given by any other Regulation):—
- (a)if he suspects that any firearms, military arms, motor cycles or motor cars, ammunition or explosive substances are or are kept, in or upon any house, building, land, vehicle, vessel, or other premises in contravention of an Order under this Regulation, may enter, if need be by force, the house, building, land, vehicle, vessel, or premises, at any time of the day or night and examine, search and inspect the same or any part thereof, any may seize any firearms, military arms, motor cycles or motor cars, ammunition or explosive substances found therein or thereon which he suspects to be, or to be kept, therein or thereon in contravention of the Order; and
- (b)may seize any motor cycle or motor car used by or in the possession or custody of any person in contravention of any such Order.
§ Any firearms, military arms, ammunition, explosive substances, motor cycles, motor cars, or other articles seized under this Regulation may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as may be ordered by the Competent Naval or Military Authority or Chief Officer of Police.