S.I. No. 202/1961 - Dáil Éireann General Election Order, 1961.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
1. This Order may be cited as the Dáil Éireann General Election Order, 1961.
2. The poll at the general election to be held as a consequence of the proclamation issued on 15th September, 1961, dissolving Dáil Éireann shall be taken in all constituencies on the 4th day of October, 1961.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this fifteenth day of September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-One.
NEIL T. BLANEY,
Minister for Local Government.
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM.
This Order fixes 4th October, 1961 as the day for the holding of a general election in consequence of the dissolution of Dáil Éireann.
The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph (
b
) of subsection (1) of
section 18
of the
Electoral Act, 1923
(No. 12 of 1923) as substituted by
section 7
of the
Electoral Act, 1960
(No. 43 of 1960) hereby orders as follows:—