Elections Act, 1960

Effect of certificate under section 22 of Electoral Act, 1923.

10.—Where a certificate is given under section 22 of the Electoral Act, 1923 , by the returning officer at the Dáil election, the certificate, as well as authorising the elector to vote at that Dáil election at the polling station specified in the certificate, shall also authorise him, if a poll is taken in relation to any of the local elections and he is entitled to vote at that election, to vote thereat at that polling station provided that—

(a) in case that election is an election of members of the corporation of a county or other borough, the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town, that polling station is situated in that county or other borough, urban district or town, and

(b) in any other case, that polling station is situated in the local government electoral area in which he is registered as a local government elector.