General Elections (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1943

Direction for a general election in lieu of a dissolution.

2.—(1) During the continuance of the present national emergency, the Taoiseach may, whenever he so thinks proper, advise the President to direct that a general election shall take place and, upon receipt of such advice, the President shall (save as is otherwise authorised by the next following sub-section of this section) direct by proclamation that a general election shall take place.

(2) The President may in his absolute discretion refuse to direct that a general election shall take place on the advice under this section of a Taoiseach who has ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Eireann.

(3) Whenever the President directs under this section that a general election shall take place, such general election shall take place under and in accordance with the Electoral Acts as modified by or under this Act and in particular with the modification that every mention in those Acts of the dissolution of Dáil Eireann in relation to the time at or within which anything shall be done or take place shall be construed and have effect as a mention of the said direction of the President that such general election shall take place.