Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1959
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Polling day at constitutional referendum also polling day at presidential or general election. |
4.—(1) Whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the day on which the poll at an election of a person to the office of President of Ireland or at a general election is taken, an authorisation under section 3 of this Act, as well as operating to authorise the person to whom it is given to vote at the poll at the referendum at the polling station specified in the authorisation, shall also operate to authorise him to vote at the poll at the election at that polling station, and that polling station shall, for the purposes of (as may be appropriate) rule 7 of the rules contained in the First Schedule to the Presidential Elections Act, 1937 , or rule 16 of the rules contained in the Fifth Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 , be deemed to be the polling station allotted to him. | |
(2) Section 28 of the Referendum Act, 1942 , as well as applying whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the polling day at a general election, shall also apply whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the day on which the poll at an election of a person to the office of President of Ireland is taken and, for that purpose, references in that section to a general election shall be construed as including references to an election of a person to that office. |