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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (IRELAND) ACT 1823

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (IRELAND) ACT 1823 - LONG TITLE

An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts now in force so
far as the same relate to the Election and Return of Members to
serve in Parliament for Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in
Ireland.{1}
[8th July 1823]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890

Ss.173 rep. by 1854 c.102 s.1 sch.A; 1872 c.33 s.32 sch.6; SLR
1873; SLR 1890; 1917 c.64 s.47(1) sch.8; 1943 c.48 s.33 sch.7 Pt.I;
1944 c.23 (NI) s.29(2) sch.6; SLR (NI) 1954; 1962 c.14 (NI) s.131
sch.11

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (IRELAND) ACT 1823 - SECT 74
Elections of persons under 21 years shall be void, and new writs
shall be issued.

74. Every election or return of any persons to serve in Parliament
for any county of a city or county of a town, who shall be under
the age of twenty-one years, shall be deemed null and void; and if
it shall be determined by any committee of the House of Commons
who shall try any petition presented against any such election or
return, that such person was under the age of twenty-one years on
the day of such election, a new writ shall forthwith issue for the
election of another person in his place.

Ss.7587 rep. by 1842 c.97 s.2; 1854 c.102 s.1 sch.A; 1872 c.33
s.32 sch.6; SLR 1873; 1883 c.51 s.66 sch.5; 1962 c.14 (NI) s.131
sch.11




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