Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1961

Temporary arrangement with respect to certain polling districts.

8.—(1) Where a polling district existing at the passing of this Act under section 42 of the Principal Act is not wholly situate within one of the constituencies specified in the Schedule to this Act, the returning officer for each constituency so specified in which a part of the district is situate shall, as respects that part,—

(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 paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall—

(a) be subject to the sanction of the Minister,

(b) shall not have effect in relation to any bye-election occurring before the dissolution of Dáil Éireann which next occurs after the passing of this Act, and

(c) shall have effect until (and only until) the first division of the county or county borough in which the polling district is situate is made under section 42 of the Principal Act after the passing of this Act.