The EPA's final year in operation began with Japan's surrender, and most EPOs were explicitly revoked before the act itself expired. The remaining orders would automatically expire when the act did. The then government wanted to keep many in force, mostly concerning economic and financial matters. These EPOs had been passed under the EPA, not because the powers they granted were otherwise unconstitutional, but because they would otherwise have required primary legislation, which is much slower to pass than secondary legislation. Several acts passed before the EPA expired kept these EPOs in force even after the EPA's expiry. The Law Reform Commission (LRC) in 2015 noted that most of these EPOs are not listed in the electronic Irish Statute Book and should be explicitly revoked "as a matter of good practice". Some of them are accessible via the Oireachtas library's online public access catalogue.