S.I. No. 144/1961 - Returning Officer's (Appointment) Order, 1961.

S.I. No. 144 of 1961.

RETURNING OFFICER'S (APPOINTMENT) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1961 , (No. 19 of 1961) hereby appoints and orders as follows:—

(1) This Order may be cited as the Returning Officers (Appointment) Order, 1961.

(2) The returning officer for each of the constituencies specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be the county registrar or sheriff specified in the second column of the said Schedule opposite the name of such constituency.

SCHEDULE

Name of Constituency	Returning Officer
Borough Constituency
Cork ... ... ... ...	Sheriff for the County Borough of Cork.
County Constituencies
Carlow-Kilkenny ... ...	Kilkenny County Registrar.
Dublin ... ... ... ...	Sheriff for the County of Dublin.
Kildare ... ... ... ...	Kildare County Registrar
Laoighis-Offaly ... ... ...	Laoighis County Registrar.
Longford-Westmeath ... ...	Westmeath County Registrar.
South Mayo ... ... ...	Mayo County Registrar
Monaghan ... ... ...	Monaghan County Registrar
Roscommon ... ... ...	Roscommon County Registrar.
Sligo-Leitrim ... ... ...	Sligo County Registrar
South Tipperary ... ... ...	Tipperary County Registrar

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Fifteenth day of July One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

NEIL T. BLANEY.

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order appoints the returning officers for the constituencies specified in the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1961 , which are not situated wholly within the area of one county registrar or, in Dublin and Cork, one sheriff.