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Chapter IV.
Miscellaneous Provisions in relation to the Defence Forces.
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Special powers in relation to defence.
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30.—(1) The Minister may do all or any of the following things—
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(a) construct and maintain barracks, quarters, defence works, magazines, aerodromes, ranges, harbours, piers, dock-yards, dry docks and anchorages;
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(b) construct, acquire, equip, maintain and commission public armed vessels and auxiliaries thereto;
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(c) construct, acquire, equip, maintain and man vessels (other than public armed vessels and auxiliaries thereto) required for defence purposes;
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(d) place and maintain buoys and lights;
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(e) lay mines;
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(f) establish, work and maintain and contract for the establishment, working and maintenance of arms and ammunition factories and factories for the manufacture of other service equipment and stores;
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(g) employ (including employ by way of apprenticeship) civilians with the Defence Forces or in a factory established under this section;
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(h) subject to the provisions of this Act, all such other things as seem to him necessary for the efficient military defence of the State.
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(2) Where the exercise of any of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section involves a charge on public funds, such powers shall be exercised only with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance.
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