Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Register of commercial electors.

34.—(1) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act, a register (in this Act referred to as the register of commercial electors) of persons entitled to vote at elections of commercial members of the City Council shall be prepared and thenceforward maintained.

(2) There shall be registered in the register of commercial electors every individual, partnership, unincorporated association, and corporate body who or which resides in Saorstát Eireann and is for the time being the rated occupier of any premises situate in the City or (until the appointed day) in an added urban district or (until the 1st day of April, 1931) in the added rural area and either—

(a) such premises are valued under the Valuation Acts at not less than twenty pounds and are occupied by such individual, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporate body wholly for the purpose of carrying on therein any business, profession, trade, manufacture, or other commercial or industrial pursuit, or

(b) such premises are occupied by such individual, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporate body partly for the purpose aforesaid and the proportion of the valuation under the Valuation Acts of such premises which is fairly attributable to the part thereof so occupied is not less than twenty pounds.

(3) For the purposes of this section—

(a) a partnership shall not be deemed to reside in Saorstát Eireann unless all the partners therein reside in Saorstát Eireann, and

(b) an unincorporated association shall not be deemed to reside in Saorstát Eireann unless its business is managed and controlled in Saorstát Eireann, and

(c) a corporate body shall not be deemed to reside in Saorstát Eireann unless either its business is managed and controlled in Saorstát Eireann and it is registered under the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1924 in Saorstát Eireann, or the business carried on by it in Saorstát Eireann consists wholly or substantially of the manufacture of goods in Saorstát Eireann.

(4) An individual, partnership, unincorporated association or corporate body may be registered in the register of commercial electors in respect of two or more premises.

(5) Every individual, partnership, unincorporated association, and corporate body who or which is for the time being registered in the register of commercial electors, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote at an election of commercial members of the City Council.

(6) In this section and in the next following section, the word “premises” means a hereditament or tenement separately valued under the Valuation Acts.