Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985
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Temporary arrangements with respect to certain polling districts. |
23.—(1) Where, by reason of the making of an order dividing any county, county borough, borough or urban district into electoral areas (including an order made under section 14 , or pursuant to the requirements of section 20 , of this Act) or amending or modifying such a division (which order is in this subsection subsequently referred to as “the dividing order”), a polling district existing immediately before the day on which the dividing order is made is not wholly situate within one of the electoral areas specified in the dividing order, the appropriate officer shall, with respect to the part of the polling district situate in an electoral area so specified— | |
(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 subsection (1) of this section shall, as regards a polling district to which it relates, have effect until, and only until, the scheme under section 22 of the Electoral Act, 1963 , and relating to the county, county borough, borough or urban district, as may be appropriate, in which the polling district is situate is next made after the commencement of the relevant dividing order within the meaning of the said subsection (1), comes into operation. | ||
(3) In this section “the appropriate officer” means— | ||
(a) in relation to a polling district situate in a county borough, the manager for the purposes of the Acts relating to the management of the county borough (including a person duly appointed either as deputy for such manager or to act in the place of such manager during his absence or incapacity or during a vacancy in his office), | ||
(b) in relation to a polling district situate in an established electoral county, the Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk (including a person duly appointed either as deputy for such manager or to act in the place of such manager during his absence or incapacity or during a vacancy in his office), and | ||
(c) in relation to any other polling district, the secretary of the council of the county in which the polling district is situate (including a person duly appointed either as deputy for such secretary or to act in the place of such secretary during his absence or incapacity or during a vacancy in his office). |