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Defence of the Realm Acts

Defence of the Realm Acts

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | Copyright

Defence of the Realm Acts (DORA) Legislation (1914, 1915, 1916) by the British Parliament during World War I. Under the Acts government took powers to commandeer factories and directly control all aspects of war production, making it unlawful for war-workers to move elsewhere. Left-wing agitators, especially on Clydeside, were “deported” to other parts of the country. Strict press censorship was imposed. All Germans had already been interned but war hysteria led tribunals to harass anyone with a German name or connection (for example, the writer D. H. Lawrence) and to imprison or fine pacifists (for example, Bertrand Russell). The Act of May 1915 gave wide powers over the supply and sale of intoxicating liquor, powers which were widely resented but which nevertheless survived the war. An Emergency Powers Act of 1920 confirmed the government's power to issue regulations in times of emergency and in 1939 many such regulations were reintroduced.
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Defence of the Realm Acts

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | Copyright

Defence of the Realm Acts (DORA) (1914–18), First World War emergency legislation empowering the government to make regulations for public safety, breaches of which could be tried by courts martial. Those executed following the rising of 1916 were sentenced under the acts. During the Anglo‐Irish War DORA regulations were widely used to restrict firearms, to create Special Military Areas within which soldiers could carry out searches, and to substitute courts martial for jury trial. From August 1920 they were superseded by the Restoration of Order Act.
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