Emergency Powers Act 1964

The Emergency Powers Act 1964 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and was passed to amend the Act 1920 and make permanent the Defence Regulations 1939. Section 1 of this Act did not apply to Northern Ireland.
Section 1 of the Emergency Powers Act 1920 which stated:
was amended:
Section 1 was repealed by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
Section 2 of this act made permanent Regulation 6 of the Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939, which allowed soldiers "temporary employment in agricultural work or in other work, being urgent work of national importance".
In 2004, the Joint Committee of the House of Commons and House of Lords named this act a "fundamental part of the constitutional law" of the UK.