S.I. No. 68/2019 - Referendum Commission (Establishment) Order 2019

1. This order may be cited as the Referendum Commission (Establishment) Order 2019.

2. A Referendum Commission is established to perform the functions conferred on it by the

Referendum Act 1998

, as amended by the

Referendum Act 2001

, in relation to the proposal for an amendment of the Constitution contained in the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016.

3. The 26

th

day of February 2019 is appointed to be the day for the purposes of section 2(5) of the

Referendum Act 1998

in respect of the chairperson of the Referendum Commission.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

26 February, 2019.

EOGHAN MURPHY,

Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This order establishes a Referendum Commission for the purposes of the Referendum Acts 1998 and 2001 in connection with the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016 and appoints 26 February, 2019 as the day on which the position of chairperson of the Commission takes effect.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil”

1

st of March,

2019.

I, Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsections (1) and (8) of

section 2

of the

Referendum Act 1998

(No. 1 of 1998), hereby order as follows