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S.I. No. 26/1961 - Dáil Éireann (Sligo-Leitrim) Bye-Election Order, 1961.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
1. This Order may be cited as the Dáil Éireann (Sligo-Leitrim) Bye-election Order, 1961.
2. The poll at the election to return a member to fill the vacancy in Dáil Éireann occasioned by the death of Stephen Flynn, a member for the county constituency of Sligo-Leitrim, shall be taken on the 1st day of March, 1961.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this ninth day of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.
NEIL T. BLANEY,
Minister for Local Government.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Order fixes the polling day for the bye-election in the Sligo-Leitrim constituency to elect a member to fill the vacancy in Dáil Éireann occasioned by the death of Stephen Flynn.
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 :—