S.I. No. 204/1961 - County Kerry (Jurors Lists and Register of Electors) Order, 1961.


S.I. No. 204 of 1961.

COUNTY KERRY (JURORS LISTS AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7 of the Local Government (Collection of Rates) Act, 1924 (No. 11 of 1924) hereby orders as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the County Kerry (Jurors Lists and Register of Electors) Order, 1961.

2. The powers and duties of a collector of county rate under the Council of the County of Kerry in relation to the registration of electors and the preparation of jurors lists shall be transferred to each person who is for the time being an assistance officer under the said Council as respects that part of the district of such assistance officer which is not in an urban district.

3. In sections 9 and 13 and subsection (2) of section 11 of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23 of 1927) and in rule 7 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923) and, as respects the registration of local government electors, in the said rule as applied by section 4 of the Local Government Electors Registration Act., 1924 (No. 7 of 1924) and in any order, regulation or rule relating to any power or duty transferred by this Order, references to a collector of poor rate or to a rate collector shall be adapted to include an assistance officer to whom powers and duties are transferred under this Order and the district of any such assistance officer respectively.

4. The Order of the Minister for Local Government dated the 24th day of October, 1924, transferring to the Garda Síochána as respects the County of Kerry powers and duties in relation to the valuation of rateable property, the registration of electors and the preparation of jurors lists is hereby revoked.

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

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order applies to County Kerry only. The effect of the Order is to transfer to the assistance officers of Kerry County Council the powers and duties of rate collectors in relation to the registration of electors and the preparation of jurors lists.