Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924

In short

This law amends the rules for preparing the register of local government electors and other related registration purposes. It ensures that local government electors are included in the second register of electors and updates the qualifying period for these electors.

What it regulates

The inclusion of local government electors in the second register of electors.
The qualifying period for local government electors.
The application of specific parts of the Electoral Act, 1923, to the registration of local government electors.
The adaptation and modification of existing laws related to local government electors.

Who it concerns

Persons entitled to vote at elections for local government bodies (local government electors).
The Minister, who can make orders to adapt and modify enactments for proper registration.

Key points

The "local government elector" is defined as a person entitled to vote at elections for councils of counties, county boroughs, urban or rural districts, boards of poor-law guardians, or town boards of commissioners.
The second register of electors, qualified on November 15, 1923, must include the names of all qualified local government electors.
The qualifying period for local government electors is changed to six months ending on November 15, including that day. This change took effect from July 14, 1923.
Parts II and VIII and Schedules I and IX of the Electoral Act, 1923, apply to the registration of local government electors, but provisions for a postal voters list do not apply. The registration officer must ensure no person is registered more than once as a local government elector in any electoral area.

Legal text

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s)or rangeBliain nó blianta nó raon TypeCineál All Legislation Acts Statutory Instruments Advanced SearchCuardach Casta HomeBaile ActsAchtanna 1924 Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924 Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924 Permanent Page URL View by SectionAmharc de réir Ailt View Full ActAmharc ar an Acht Iomlán Bill History Stair Bille Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act Tosach Feidhme, Leasuithe, IRí arna ndéanamh faoin Acht Print Full ActPriontáil an tAcht Iomlán Number 7 of 1924. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORS REGISTRATION ACT, 1924. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1. Definitions. 2. Second register of electors to include local government electors. 3. Alteration of the qualifying period for local government electors. 4. Application of Electoral Act, 1923, to registration of local government electors. 5. Adaptation of enactments relating to local government electors. 6. Short title. Act Referred to Electoral Act, 1923 No. 12 of 1923 Number 7 of 1924. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORS REGISTRATION ACT, 1924. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE PREPARATION OF THE REGISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF SUCH ELECTORS. [21st March, 1924] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— Definitions. 1.—In this Act—: the expression “Principal Act” means the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923); the expression “local government elector” means a person entitled to vote at an election of members or a member of the council of a county, county borough, or urban or rural district, a board of poor-law guardians, or the board of commissioners of any town; all words and expressions in this Act which are also used in the Principal Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning in this Act as in the Principal Act. Second register of electors to include local government electors. 2.—The second register of electors to be prepared pursuant to the Principal Act, that is to say the register of electors who are qualified on the 15th day of November, 1923, shall in addition to the matters prescribed by or under the Principal Act, contain in the prescribed form the names of all persons who under the existing law as amended by this Act are qualified on the 15th day of November, 1923, to be registered as local government electors. Alteration of the qualifying period for local government electors. 3.—

(1)So much of sub-section

(11)of section 44 of the Representation of the People Act, 1918, as enacts that the qualifying period shall be a period of six months ending on the 15th dayof July is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the qualifying period for local government electors shall be a period of six months ending on the 15th day of November and including that day.

(2)This section shall come into operation and take effect as on and from the 14th day of July, 1923. Application of Electoral Act, 1923, to registration of local government electors. 4.—

(1)Parts II. and VIII. and Schedules I. and IX. of the Principal Act shall apply to the registration of local government electors in the like manner as they apply to the registration of Dáil electors but with the following modifications:— (

a)the provisions relating to the preparation of a postal voters list shall not apply, and (
b)the registration officer shall in addition to the duties imposed on him by Rule 22 of Schedule I., make such alterations and corrections in the electors lists as he thinks necessary in order to secure that no person is registered more than once as a local government elector in any county, district, borough, poor law or town electoral area.

(2)So much of any enactment relating to the registration of local government electors as is inconsistent with Parts II. and VIII. and Schedules I. and IX. of the Principal Act shall henceforth not apply to the registration of local government electors. Adaptation of enactments relating to local government electors. 5.—

(1)The Minister may by order make such adaptations of and modifications in any enactment relating to the registration of local government electors (including the Principal Act as applied by this Act) as may appear to him to be necessary for the proper registration of local government electors pursuant to this Act, but so that no such adaptation or modification shall operate to confer on or to take from any person the right to be registered as a local government elector.

(2)Section 64 of the Principal Act shall apply to every order made under this section. Short title. 6.—This Act may be cited as the Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924. Privacy Statement Accessibility European Legislation Identifier (PDF) Open Data License Ráiteas Príobháideachais Inrochtaineacht Aitheantóir Eorpach Reachtaíochta (ELI) Ceadúnas Sonraí Oscailte Liosta Fianán © Government of Ireland. Oireachtas Copyright Material is reproduced with the permission of the Houses of the Oireachtas © Rialtas na hÉireann. Atáirgtear ábhar faoi Chóipcheart le cead ó Thithe an Oireachtais

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