No. 28/1966:

LOCAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1966

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Alteration of years for holding local elections.

2 Alteration of years for making appointments of school attendance committees.

3 Provisions with respect to certain meetings.

4 Amendment of section 84 (1) of Electoral Act, 1963.

5 Repeals.

6 Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement.

AN ACT TO ALTER THE YEARS FOR HOLDING LOCAL ELECTIONS AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH LOCAL ELECTIONS.

[15th November, 1966.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

1.—(1) Section 81 (1) of the Electoral Act, 1963 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

"( a ) An election of members of every local authority shall be held in the year 1967 and quinquennially thereafter."

(2) The terms of office of members of local authorities current at the commencement of this Act shall stand extended so as to be in accordance with the holding in the year 1967 of the elections of members of local authorities next after the commencement of this Act and those elections shall be regarded as quinquennial elections.

2.—The appointments next after the commencement of this Act under section 10 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 , shall be made in the year 1967 and shall be regarded as quinquennial appointments.

3.—(1) Notwithstanding that the Local Elections Act, 1927 , has been repealed, the meetings referred to in sections 8 (1), 9 (1), 9 (2) and 10 (2) of that Act by reference to the period from the 23rd day of June to the 1st day of July in a year shall be held in the year 1966, and, for the purposes of this subsection, that Act (including, in particular sections 8 (2), 9 (3), 10 (3) and 11) shall be regarded as not having been repealed.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in relation to the borough of Dun Laoghaire as it has effect in relation to other boroughs, provided however that any reference to a mayor shall be construed as a reference to the chairman.

(3) The meetings next after the commencement of this Act under section 14 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 , shall be regarded as quinquennial meetings.

4.— Section 84 (1) of the Electoral Act, 1963 , is hereby amended by the addition of "subject to the restriction that a day fixed as aforesaid shall be in the month of June in the year in which the elections to which the order relates are held".

5.— Sections 1 , 2 (2), 3 (2) and 3 (3) of the Local Elections Act, 1965 , are hereby repealed.

6.—(1) This Act may he cited as the Local Elections Act, 1966 .

(2) The Local Elections Acts, 1963 and 1965, and this Act may be cited together as the Local Elections Acts, 1963 to 1966, and shall be construed together as one Act.

(3) This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 8th day of June, 1966, and anything done on or after that day and before and in anticipation of the passing of this Act shall be valid accordingly.