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Alteration of county electoral areas.
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7.—(1) Where the Minister has made a dividing order and either or both of the following circumstances exist, that is to say:—
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(a) one or more of the county electoral areas in the county to which such dividing order relates is, at the date of such order, situate partly in one and partly in another or others of the new rural sanitary districts constituted by such order, and
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(b) the Minister has altered, under the power in that behalf conferred on him by this Act, the number of members of the council of such county,
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the Minister shall, in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in him by section 1 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, make a new division of the said county into county electoral areas and shall so make such division that every county electoral area in such county shall be wholly within one or other of the said new rural sanitary districts.
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(2) Whenever the Minister, in pursuance of this section, divides a county into county electoral areas he shall fix the number of the members of the council of such county to be elected for each such county electoral area.
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