Electoral (Admendment) Act, 1947
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Constituencies. |
3.—(1) The members of Dáil Éireann shall represent the constituencies specified in the First Schedule to this Act. | |
(2) A constituency specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act shall be a borough constituency and a constituency specified in Part II thereof shall be a county constituency. | ||
(3) An area specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall be taken to be that area as constituted on the 1st day of January, 1947, but if any doubt arises as to the constituency in which any townland or area smaller than a townland is included, the doubt shall be determined by the Minister. | ||
(4) In the First Schedule to the Act— | ||
(a) a reference to a line drawn along any road, street or railway shall, save where the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to a line drawn along the middle of the road, street or railway, | ||
(b) a reference to a point at which any road or street intersects, cuts, meets, joins, crosses, reaches, leaves or departs from any road or street shall, save where the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the point at which a line drawn along the middle of the one and a line drawn along the middle of the other would intersect when prolonged. |