Electoral Act, 1960
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Days for nominations and polls. |
7.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 18 (as amended by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1927 , and sub paragraph (1) of paragraph (3) of the Electoral Act, 1923 , Adaptation Order, 1945 ): | |
“18. (1) At a Dáil Election— | ||
(a) the last day for receiving nominations shall be the last day of the period which consists of the nine days (disregarding any excluded day) next following— | ||
(i) in the case of a general election, the day of the proclamation dissolving Dáil Éireann, and | ||
(ii) in the case of a bye-election, the day on which the writ for the election is issued, and | ||
(b) the poll shall be taken on such day as shall be appointed by the Minister for Local Government being a day during the period which consists of the ten days (disregarding any excluded day) next following the period which consists of the six days (disregarding any excluded day) next following the last day for receiving nominations. | ||
(2) Section 60 of this Act shall not apply in relation to this section, but ‘excluded day’ in this section means any of the days which are specified in subsection (1) of the said section 60 as days not to be reckoned.” |