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S.I. No. 95/1955 - Local Elections (Amendment) Order, 1955.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Amendment) Order, 1955.
2. In this Order, " the Principal Order " means the Local Elections Order, 1942 (S.R. and O. 1942, No. 255).
3. Form LE. 7 of the First Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the insertion of the words " Marcáil ord do rogha sna spáis seo síos " before the words " Mark order of preference in spaces below " and by the insertion of the words "Ainmneacha na nIarrthóirí" before the words " Names of Candidates."
4. In Form LE. 6 of the First Schedule to the Principal Order, the examples of ballot papers validly marked may, at the discretion of the returning officer, contain the words " Marcáil ord do rogha sna spáis seo síos " before the words " Mark order of preference in spaces below " and the word " Ainmneacha na nIarrthóirí " before the words " Names of Candidates."
5. Sub-paragraph (
a
) of paragraph (5) of rule 6 of the Third Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the deletion therefrom of the words " and the number of votes credited at such count to the lowest candidate is greater than one-third of the quota."
6. Paragraph (2) of rule 7 of the Third Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the deletion therefrom of the words " and the number of votes credited to the lowest candidate is greater than one-third of the quota."
7. Paragraph (3) of rule 9 of the Third Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the deletion therefrom of the words " so long as the number of votes credited to each of the continuing candidates referred to in rule 9 (2) who are not deemed to be elected is greater than one-third of the quota."
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this twenty-fifth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five.
PATRICK O'DONNELL,
Minister for Local Government.
S.I. No. 95 of 1955.
LOCAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1955.
The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by article 5 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, as amended by
section 39
of the
Local Government Act, 1941
, and by section 10 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, hereby orders as follows :—