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Glossary Item: Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1940
Name Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1940
Description A UK Act of parliament passed on 22nd May 1940. It adopted the regulations provided by the original Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 of 24th August 1939 with a provision to extending them. The Order S.R. & O. 1940/781 (May 22) included the addition of regulation 58A, the hinge-pin of all further man-power control.
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Name Manpower, The Story of Britain's Mobilisation for War
Category Production at Home
Issued By Ministry Of Information
Issued For none
Published May/1944
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