S.I. No. 102/1933 - The Local Elections (Date of Election) Order, 1933.

3. The

Interpretation Act, 1923

, applies for the purpose of the interpretation of this Order in the same manner in which it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, this 30th day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three.

Signed GERALD BOLAND,

Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, acting as agent for the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 102.

THE LOCAL ELECTIONS (DATE OF ELECTION) ORDER, 1933.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

LOCAL ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS (POSTPONEMENT) ACT, 1931

.

WHEREAS by

section 2

of the

Local Elections and Meetings (Postponement) Act, 1931

(in this Order referred to as " the Act "), the Minister for Local Government and Public Health (in this Order referred to as " the Minister ") is empowered to appoint dates for the holding of the elections of members of local authorities which were postponed by the Act

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Act it is provided that whenever the Minister makes an Order under the Act appointing the date for the holding of an election which is not a triennial election the Minister shall by such Order declare whether the election held on the date so appointed shall or shall not be deemed to be a triennial election to the local authority thereby elected

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister in exercise of the powers so vested in him by the Act and of every other power in that behalf enabling him, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—

1.—The date for the holding of every triennial election of members of a local authority (not being the council of a county borough) which was postponed by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act shall be the 14th day of November, 1933.

2.—(1) The date for the holding of every election of members of a local authority (not being the council of a county borough) which, not being a triennial election, was postponed by sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of section 2 of the Act, except the election of members of the council of the urban district of Howth, shall be the 14th day of November, 1933.

(2) Every election which is held on the said 14th day of November, 1933, by virtue of this article shall be deemed to be a triennial election to the local authority thereby elected.