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Number 16 of 2005


ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

 

1.

Interpretation.

2.

Number of members of Dáil Éireann.

3.

Constituencies.

4.

Number of members to be returned for a constituency.

5.

Repeal.

6.

Amendment of Schedule to Electoral Act 1997.

7.

Short title, collective citation and construction.

Schedule


Acts Referred to

Electoral Act 1997

1997, No. 25

Electoral Acts 1992 to 2004

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001

2001, No. 38

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1998

1998, No. 19

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Number 16 of 2005


ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005


AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF DÁIL ÉIREANN AND FOR THE REVISION OF CONSTITUENCIES, TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF SUCH MEMBERS AND TO AMEND THE ELECTORAL ACT 1997.

[9th July, 2005]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Interpretation.

1. —(1) In this Act “Minister” means the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

(2) In the Schedule to this Act—

(a) a reference to a former rural district shall be construed as a reference to that district as constituted immediately before 1 October 1925, and

(b) a reference to a line drawn along any motorway, road, railway or street shall be construed as a reference to a line drawn along the centre of such motorway, road, railway or street.

Number of members of Dáil Éireann.

2. —Dáil Éireann shall, after the dissolution thereof that next occurs after the passing of this Act, consist of 166 members.

Constituencies.

3. —(1) The members of Dáil Éireann shall, after the dissolution of Dáil Éireann that 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 28 March 2005, but if any doubt arises as to the constituency in which any electoral division or part thereof, or any townland or part thereof, is included, the doubt shall, subject to section 1 (2)(b) of this Act, be determined by the Minister.

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.

Repeal.

5. —(1) The Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1998 is repealed.

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

Amendment of Schedule to Electoral Act 1997.

6. — The Schedule to the Electoral Act 1997 (inserted by section 50(v) of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001 ) is amended by inserting the following subparagraph in paragraph 2:

“(a) any of the matters referred to in subparagraphs (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of section 22(2)(b) or, in the case of a presidential election, subparagraphs (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of section 46(2)(b),”.

Short title, collective citation and construction.

7. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005 .

(2) The Electoral Acts 1992 to 2004 and this Act may be cited together as the Electoral Acts 1992 to 2005 and shall be read together as one.