Electoral (Dublin Commercial) Act, 1930

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Death of candidate.

9.—(1) In the counting of the votes cast at an election under this Act all the preferences recorded for a candidate of whose death the returning officer has received notice after the latest hour and day for the withdrawal of candidates and before the close of the poll shall be disregarded and regard shall be had in lieu thereof to the next available preferences.

(2) Every candidate returned as elected at an election under this Act who dies before the commencement of his term of office, whether he so dies before, during, or after the election, shall (without prejudice to the power of a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to declare his election void) be deemed to have been duly so elected and to vacate his seat immediately after the commencement of his term of office.