Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

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PART III.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

Election of county councillors to be held.

81.—(1) On the day of election there shall be a triennial election of members of the County Council.

(2) The triennial elections of members of the County Council shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919 or in the Local Elections Act, 1927 (No. 39 of 1927), be held in every third year after the year 1930, and in no other year.

(3) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the election of members of the County Council held in the year 1930, that is to say:—

(a) for the purposes of such election the added urban districts and the added rural area shall be deemed not to form part of and not to be included in the County;

(b) as soon as may be after the passing of this Act and before the day of election, the Minister shall by order divide the County exclusive of the added urban districts and the added rural area into such number of county electoral areas as he shall think proper which shall, in relation to such election, be county electoral areas for the purposes of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919;

(c) the Minister shall by his said order prescribe the number of members of the County Council to be elected for each county electoral area constituted by such order and shall so prescribe such number as to secure, so far as is practicable, that the number of members so assigned to each such area shall be such as to give equal representation upon the basis of population;

(d) every polling district existing at the passing of this Act which is wholly within a county electoral area prescribed by the said order shall be a polling district for the purposes of such election and every polling place so existing in any such polling district shall be a polling place for the purposes of such election;

(e) in the case of a polling district existing at the passing of this Act which is not wholly within any county electoral area prescribed by the said order, each part of such polling district wholly within any such county electoral area shall be a separate polling district for the purposes of such election, and the polling places in each such last-mentioned separate polling district at such election shall be such places (whether within or outside such district) as shall be appointed for the purpose by the returning officer at such election.