Electoral Act, 1992
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Temporary arrangements with respect to certain polling districts. |
29.—(1) Where, following a revision of constituencies a polling district existing immediately prior to such revision is not wholly situate within a new Dáil constituency, the appropriate officer, after consultation with the returning officer for such Dáil constituency shall, with respect to the part of the polling district situate in the constituency— | |
(a) join it or parts of it with any adjoining polling district or districts, or | ||
(b) constitute it as a polling district and appoint a polling place for it. | ||
(2) An arrangement made pursuant to subsection (1) shall be subject to confirmation by the Minister (who may confirm the arrangement with or without modification) and shall have effect until (and only until) the first scheme under section 28 in relation to the county or county borough in which the polling district is situate comes into operation after the making of the arrangement and shall not have effect in relation to any bye-election occurring before the dissolution of the Dáil which next occurs after the said revision of constituencies. | ||
(3) In this section “the appropriate officer” means— | ||
(a) in relation to a polling district situate in a county borough, the manager for the purposes of the Acts relating to the management of the county borough (including a person duly appointed either as deputy for such manager or to act in the place of such manager during his absence or incapacity or during a vacancy in his office), | ||
(b) in relation to any other polling district, the secretary of the council of the county in which the polling district is situate (including a person duly appointed either as deputy for such secretary or to act in the place of such secretary during his absence or incapacity or during a vacancy in his office), or a person assigned to perform the duties of county secretary under this section. |