S.I. No. 7/1983 - Unlawful Organisation (Suppression) Order, 1983.

1. This Order may be cited as the Unlawful Organisation (Suppression) Order, 1983.

2. It is hereby declared that the organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army (also the I.N.L.A.) is an unlawful organisation and ought, in the public interest, to be suppressed.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 5th day of January, 1983.

GARRET FITZGERALD,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army (also the I.N.L.A.) is an unlawful organisation.

S.I. No. 7 of 1983.

UNLAWFUL ORGANISATION (SUPPRESSION) ORDER, 1983.

WHEREAS it is enacted by

section 18

of the

Offences against the State Act, 1939

(No. 13 of 1939), that an organisation which does any of certain things enumerated in that section shall be an unlawful organisation within the meaning and for the purposes of that Act

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 19 (1) of the said Act that, if and whenever the Government are of opinion that any particular organisation is an unlawful organisation, it shall be lawful for the Government by order to declare that such organisation is an unlawful organisation and ought, in the public interest, to be suppressed

AND WHEREAS the Government are of opinion that the organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army (also the I.N.L.A.) is an unlawful organisation

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the power conferred on them by

section 19

(1) of the

Offences Against the State Act, 1939

, hereby order as follows:—