Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001

Amendment of Local Government Act, 1994.

53.—The Local Government Act, 1994 , is amended—

(a) by the insertion in section 5 of “on or before polling day at the relevant local election (within the meaning of Part III) or if there is no poll in the local electoral area on or before the day which is polling day generally throughout the State in relation to the election concerned, or, as the case may be, on or before the day of co-option to a local authority” after “18 years”;

(b) by the substitution in subsection (1) of section 21 of “7 a.m.” for “8 a.m.”.