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39 1927

LOCAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1927

PART III.

Elections in the County of Dublin.

Application of Part III . of this Act.

20. —This Part of this Act applies to the council of the county of Dublin and to every local authority whose functional area is situate within the county of Dublin except the commissioners of the town of Balbriggan.

Postponement of local elections.

21. —(1) Section 2 of the Local Elections Postponement Act, 1925 (No. 42 of 1925) shall cease to apply to the local authorities to which this Part of this Act applies and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the statutory elections of members of such local authorities which but for that Act would have been held in the year 1926 shall be postponed until and shall be held on such date not being later than the 31st day of March, 1929 as the Minister shall by order prescribe.

(2) An order under this section (including an order under this sub-section) may be revoked by a subsequent order but in every such case a new date for the holding of such election shall be prescribed by such subsequent order.

(3) In this Part of this Act the expression “the prescribed date” means the date prescribed under this section for the holding of the statutory elections of the local authority in relation to which the expression is used.

Extension of terms of office.

22. —(1) The term of office of every member of a local authority to which this Part of this Act applies shall be extended until the day after the prescribed date.

(2) The term of office of every member of a board, committee, joint board or joint committee who is nominated or elected by a local authority to which this Part of this Act applies is hereby extended until the annual meeting of such local authority held next after the prescribed date.

(3) The term of office of every chairman and vice-chairman of or appointed by a local authority to which this Part of this Act applies who is in office on the prescribed date shall terminate when and so soon as his successor has been elected at the annual meeting of such local authority held next after the prescribed date and has made the declaration accepting office and such term of office shall be extended or curtailed (as the case may require) accordingly.

Annual and quarterly meetings.

23. —(1) The Minister shall in every order made by him under this Part of this Act prescribing a date on which a statutory election of a local authority is to be held prescribe the day and hour on and at which the first annual meeting of such local authority after such election is to be held.

(2) Every local authority to which this Part of applies shall hold an annual meeting on the day and at the hour prescribed in that behalf under this section and shall transact at such meeting all the business which such local authority is by law required to transact at an annual meeting held next after a statutory election.