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Number 36 of 1983


ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1983


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definition.

2.

Number of members of Dáil Éireann.

3.

Constituencies.

4.

Number of members to be returned for a constituency.

5.

Temporary arrangements with respect to register of electors.

6.

Repeal.

7.

Short title, construction and collective citation.

SCHEDULE


Acts Referred to

Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1973

Electoral Act, 1963

1963, No. 19

Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1980

1980, No. 17

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1980

1980, No. 40

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Number 36 of 1983


ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1983


AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF DÁIL ÉIREANN AND FOR THE REVISION OF CONSTITUENCIES AND TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF SUCH MEMBERS. [14th December, 1983.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Definition.

1. —In this Act “the Minister” means the Minister for the Environment.

Number of members of Dáil Éireann.

2. —Dáil Éireann shall, after the dissolution thereof which next occurs after the passing of this Act, consist of one hundred and sixty-six members.

Constituencies.

3. —(1) The members of Dáil Éireann shall, after the dissolution of Dáil Éireann which next occurs after the passing of this Act, represent the constituencies specified in the Schedule to this Act.

(2) An area specified in the Schedule to this Act shall be taken to be that area as constituted on the 1st day of January, 1983, but if any doubt arises as to the constituency in which any townland or part thereof, any road or street or part thereof, or any part of a ward, is included, the doubt shall be determined by the Minister.

(3) In the Schedule to this Act a reference to a former rural district shall be construed as a reference to that district as constituted immediately before the 1st day of October, 1925.

Number of members to be returned for a constituency.

4. —A constituency specified in the Schedule to this Act shall return the number of members set out in respect thereof in the third column of that Schedule.

Temporary arrangements with respect to register of electors.

5. —(1) Where a polling district or part of a polling district is situate in a constituency specified in the Schedule to this Act which is identical in area with none of the constituencies existing on the passing of this Act, the Minister may by direction provide for the entry of the name of that constituency in respect of the polling district, or part of the polling district, in every draft register, list of claimants, register of electors and list of corrections prepared under Part II of the Electoral Act, 1963 , and published by a registration authority before the dissolution of Dáil Éireann which next occurs after the passing of this Act.

(2) Where a constituency specified in the Schedule to this Act is identical in area with none of the constituencies existing at the passing of this Act, a postal voters list or lists shall be prepared in respect of it by the registration authority or registration authorities concerned as soon as may be after such passing.

Repeal.

6. —(1) The Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1980 , is hereby repealed.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the dissolution of Dáil Éireann which next occurs after the passing of this Act.

Short title, construction and collective citation.

7. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1983.

(2) The Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1973, the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1980 , and this Act shall be construed together as one Act and may be cited together as the Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1983.