Oireachtas Library □huzcjuu 1317863 BILLE UM THOGHACHAIN AITIULA, 1927. LOCAL ELECTIONS BILL, 1927. Mar do tugadh 1st each. As introduced. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. PART I. Preliminary. Section. 1. Short title. 2. Definitions. 3. Saving for dissolved authorities. part n. Elections , etc ., Oi tside Dublin C ity and C ounty. J I 4. Application of Part II. of this Act. 5. Ordinary day of election in counties. 6. Ordinary day of election in county boroughs. 7. Ordinary day of retirement of councillors, etc. 8. Annual meetings of county councils. 9. Annual meetings of urban district councils and commis ­ sioners of towns. 10. Quarterly meetings of county and other borough councils. 11. Failure to hold annual or quarterly meeting. 12. Saving from disqualification in certain cases. 13. Members of joint committees and joint boards. 14. Appointment of polling districts and polling places. 15. Local elections in the year 1928. 16. Terms of office terminating in 1928. 17. Partial repeal of section 94 of Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. PART m. Elections in the C ounty of Dublin. 18. Application of Part III. of this Act. 19. Postponement of local elections. 20. Extension of terms of office. 21. Annual and quarterly meetings. [No. 36 of '27.j SAORSTAT EIREANN. I BILLE (JM THOGHACHAIN AITIULA, 1927. LOCAL ELECTIONS BILL, 1927. BILL entitled AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO LOCAL 5 ELECTIONS, TO POSTPONE FURTHER THE ELEC­ TIONS TO CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN, AND TO MAKE CONSE­ QUENTIAL AMENDMENTS IN THE LAW RELATING TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES. 10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOW'S PART I. Preliminary. Short title. 1-—This Act may be cited as the Local Elections Act, 1927. 15 Definitions. 2. —In this Act— the expression “ the Minister ” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health; the expression “ local authority ” means and includes the council of a county, the council of a county or other borough, the council 20 of an urban district, the commissioners of a town and. in relation to the county of Dublin, a rural district council and a board of guardians; the expression “ local electoral area ” means a local electoral area constituted under the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919; 25 the word “ town ” means a town as defined in the Local Govern­ ment (Ireland) Act, 1898, which is not an urban district; every other word and expression to which a particular meaning is assigned by the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, has the meaning so assigned to it. 8Q Saving for 3*—Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the operation dissolved authorities. of any order under section 12 of the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 9 of 1923) or section 72 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925) nor of the Local Elections (Dissolved Authorities) Act, 1926 (No. 22 of 1926). 35 PART II. Elections , etc ., Outside Dublin C ity and C ounty. Application of 4. —This Part of this Act applies to every local authority Part II of this Act. whose functional area is outside the county and the county borough of Dublin and also applies to the Commissioners of the 40 town of Balbriggan. Ordinary day- 5. —(1) In every county the ordinary day of election of county of election in counties. councillors shall be such day, not earlier than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July, as shall be fixed by the county council. (2) Every election of aldermen and councillors of a borough other than a county borough and of urban district councillors and town commissioners shall be held on the day which is fixed under this section as the ordinary day of election of county 2 (councillors for the county in which such borough, urban district, or town is situate, and every such election shall be held together with the election of county councillors for such county. (3) In any year in which, by virtue of this Act or otherwise, 5 a triennial election of commissioners of the town of Balbriggan is required to be held but no election of councillors of the county of Dublin is held between the 22nd day of June and the 2nd day of July, such triennial election of commissioners of the town of Balbriggan shall be held on such day in that year, not earlier 10 than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July, as the council of the county of Dublin shall fix after# consultation with the commissioners of the said town. 6. —In every county borough the ordinary day of election of Ortdm&ry^day aldermen and councillors shall be such day, not earlier than the £OUnty 10n m 15 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July, as shall boroughs, be fixed by the county borough council. 7. —(1) The ordinary day of retirement of county councillors Ordinary day of shall be the seventh day after the ordinary day of election of councilors, °etc. such councillors and on such ordinary day of retirement the old 20 councillors shall retire and the newly elected councillors shall come into office. (2) The ordinary day of retirement of councillors of an urban district which is not a borough and of commissioners of a town shall be the fifth day after the ordinary day of election of such 25 council or such commissioners and on such ordinary day of retirement the old councillors or commissioners (as the case may be) shall retire and the newly elected councillors or commis ­ sioners shall come into office. (3) The ordinary day of retirement of aldermen and 30 councillors of a county or other borough shall be the fifth day after the ordinary day of election of such aldermen and councillors and on such ordinary day of retirement the old aldermen and councillors shall retire and the newly elected aider- men and councillors shall come into office. o- 8.—(1) In every year in which a triennial election to a county Annual council is held the annual meeting of such council shall be held meetings of at noon on the fourteenth day after the day of such election and county counci s- in every other year the annual meeting of such council shall be held at such time on such day not earlier than the 23rd day of 40 June nor later than the 1st day of July as such council shall fix. (2) The first business at every annual meeting of the council of a county shall be the election of the chairman and vice- chairman, and every such chairman and vice-chairman shall come into office as soon after his election as he has made the declaration 45 accepting office and shall continue in office until his successor has been elected and made the declaration accepting office. 9.—(1) In every yearin which a triennial election to the council Annual of an urban district which is not a borough is held the annual meetings of meeting of such council shall be held at noon on the tenth day councilsamf* 50 after the day of such election and in every other year the annual commissioners meeting of such council shall be held at such time on such day°* town s. not earlier than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July as such council shall fix. (2) In every year in which a triennial election of the commis- 55sioners of a town is held the annual meeting of such commissioners shall be held at noon on the tenth day after the day of such election and in every other year the annual meeting of such commissioners shall be held at such time on such day not earlier than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July as 60 such commissioners shall fix. (3) The first business at every annual meeting of the council of an urban district which is not a borough or of the commissioners 3 of a town shall be the election of the chairman and vice-chairman and every such chairman and vice-chairman shall come into office as soon after his,election as he has made the declaration accepting? office and shall continue in office until his successor has been elected and made the declaration accepting office. ^ Quarterly meetings of 10—(1) The first quarterly meeting of the council of a county county and or other borough after a triennial election to such council shall other borough be held at noon on the tenth day after the day of such election councils. and a quarterly meeting of such council shall be held at such hour on such other three days before the next following 23rd day 10 of June as si^ch council shall fix at such first-mentioned quarterly meeting. (2) In every year in which no triennial election to the council of a county or other borough is held a quarterly meeting of such council shall be held at such hour on such day not earlier than 15 the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July as such council shall fix at the last previous quarterly meeting and a quarterly meeting of such council shall also be held at such hour on such other three days before the next following 23rd day of June as such council shall fix at such first mentioned quarterly 20 meeting. (3) The first business (after the determination of the question which of the members are to be aldermen if and when that question arises) at the quarterly meeting of the council of a county or other borough held next after the 22nd day of June in 25 any year shall be the election of the mayor, and every such mavor shall come into office as soon after his election as he has made the declaration accepting office and shall continue in office until his successor has been elected and made the declaration accepting Failure to hold annual or 11 — (1) Whenever an annual meeting of the council of a quarterly county or an urban district which is not a borough or of the meeting.