Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1973

Amendment of Electoral Act, 1963.

2.—The Electoral Act, 1963 , is hereby amended by the substitution of “eighteen years” for “twenty-one years”—

(a) in subsection (1) and paragraph (a) (inserted by the Local Elections Act, 1972 ) of subsection (2) of section 5 ,

(b) in paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 26 (2),

(c) in paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 51 (2), and

(d) in paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 70 (2).