saorst At eireann . BILLE TOGHAOHAIN (DAELCHEANNTAIR d ’ ATHCHOIRIU), 1934. ELECTORAL (REVISION OF CONSTITUENCIES) BILL, 1934. Mar do leasuiodh i gCoiste. As amended in Committee. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. Section. 1. The Principal Act. 2. Revision of Constituencies. 3. Number of members of D£il Eireann. 4. Returning officers and assistant returning officers. 5. Constituency of the Ceann Comhairle. 6. Amendment of section 41 of the Principal Act. 7. Title-page of electors lists, etc. 8. Commencement of this Act. 9. Short title and citation. FIRST SCHEDULE. Revised Constituencies. SECOND SCHEDULE. Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers. [No. 11a of >34.] saorst At EIREANN. BILLE TOGHACHAIN (DAELCHEANNTAIR d’ATHCHOIRIU), 1934. ELECTORAL (REVISION OF CONSTITUENCIES) BILL, 1934. BILL entitled AN ACT TO REVISE, IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLE 26 OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE CONSTITUENCIES (OTHER THAN UNIVERSITY CONSTITUENCIES) BY WHICH THE MEMBERS OF DAIL EIREANN ARE ELECTED 10 AND, IN CONSEQUENCE OF SUCH REVISION, TO ALTER THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF DAIL EIREANN, AND FOR THOSE AND OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF DAIL EIREANN. 15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS: The Principal 1. —(1) In this Act the expression “ the Principal Act ” means Act. the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923). (2) Every word and expression to which a particular meaning 20 is given by the Principal Act for the purposes of that Act has in this Act the meaning so given, save that the word “ pre­ scribed ” means prescribed by order made by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health. Revision of 2.—The Eighth Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby 25 Constituencies. amended as follows, that is to say:— (а) by the deletion of the words “ nineteen hundred and twenty-three ” now contained in rule 2 of the said Eighth Schedule and the insertion in that rule of the words “ nineteen hundred and thirty-four ” in lieu of 30 the words so deleted, and (б) by the deletion of Part I of the said Eighth Schedule and the insertion in that Schedule of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act in lieu of the Part so deleted, and 3f» (c) by the deletion of Part II of the said Eighth Schedule and the insertion in that Schedule of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act in lieu of the Part so deleted, and the Principal Act, and in particular section 50 thereof shall 40 be construed and have effect accordingly. 2 3.—So much of sub-section (1) of section 50 of the Principal Number of Act as enacts that Dail Eireann shall consist of one hundred of and fifty-three members shall cease to have effect on the com ­ mencement of this Act, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted 5 that Dail Eireann shall consist of one hundred and thirty-six mem­ bers returned by borough constituencies and county constituen­ cies, together with such number of members (if any) as is for the time being required by law to be returned by university con­ stituencies. 10 4.—(1) The officer specified in the second column of the Second Returning officers Schedule to this Act opposite the name in the first column of the and assistant said Second Schedule of any constituency shall be the returning returning o cers. officer for that constituency. (2) The provisions contained in the third column of the Second 15 Schedule to this Act opposite the name ini the first column of the said Second Schedule of any constituency shall have effect in relation to the assistant returning officer for that constituency. (3) Sub-section (1) of section 23 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed. 2q 5.—The County Constituency of East Galway as defined in Constituency of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act shall be the constituency ^eann N corresponding, for the purposes of Article 21 of the Constitution, ° air e' to the County Constituency of Galway existing at the passing of this Act. 25 6.—Paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) of section 41 of the Prin- Amendment of eipal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of the words section 41 of the “ adjoining the constituency ” now contained therein, and the PrinciPal Act. insertion of the words “ adjoining the county in which the con­ stituency or the greater part thereof is situate ” in the said 30 paragraph in lieu of the words so deleted, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly. 7.—(1) The title-page of every electors list, list of claimants, list Title-page of of objections, and register of electors prepared under the First electors lists, etc. Schedule to the Principal Act after the passing and before the 35 commencement of this Act for a registration unit in a consti ­ tuency existing at the passing of this Act which is not identical in area and name with a constituency defined in the First Schedule to this Act, shall show in the prescribed manner the name of the constituency defined in the First Schedule to this Act in 40 which such registration unit will be situate as well as the name of the said existing constituency in which such registration unit is situate at the passing of this Act. (2) This section shall come into operation immediately upon the passing of this Act. 45 8.—Save as is otherwise provided by this Act, this Act shall ^'f0^^ei^nent come into operation immediately upon the dissolution of the Oireachtas which shall occur next after the passing of this Act. 9.—(i) This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Revision of Short title and Constituencies) Act, 1934. citation. 50 (2) The Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1927, and this Act may be cited together as the Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1934. 3 FIRST SCHEDULE. REVISED CONSTITUENCIES. Part I. BOROUGH CONSTITUENCIES. Total Name of Number of Contents or Boundaries of Constituency Members Constituency for Constituency C ork The County Borough of Cork and the District Elec­ Four. toral Division of Blackrock, in the administrative County of Cork. N orth-East The Clontarf East, Clontarf West, Drumcondra Three. D ublin. and North Dock Wards ; and The portion of the Mountjoy Ward bounded by a line drawn as follows :—Starting at the point in the boundary of the said Ward along Sekn Mac Dermott ✓ Street Lower where it is intersected by a line drawn along the middle of Buckingham Street Upper and Buckingham Street Lower and proceeding thence in a North-Westerly direction along the middle of Buckingham Street Upper to Summerhill and thence in a North-Easterly direction along the middle of Summerhill to the North Circular Road and thence in a North-Easterly direction along the middle of the North Circular Road to meet the existing boundary of the said Ward along Russell Street and Fitzgibbon Street and thence in a North-Easterly, North-Westerly South Easterly and South-Westerly direction along the existing boundary of the said Ward to the starting point ; and The townlands of :— Artane South, Ballyhoy, Bettyville, Charleville, Clonturk, Edenmore, FoxTands, Furrypark, Glebe, Hampstead Hill. Hampstead South, Harmonstown, Kil barrack Upper, Killester Demesne, Killester North, Maryville, North Bull (Drumcondra Rural), North Bull (Howth Rural), Puckstown, Raheny North, Raheny South and Sibylhill in so far as the same are situate within the County Borough of Dublin. N orth-West The Arran Quay, Glasnevin, Inns Quay, North City Five. D ublin. and Rotunda Wards. The Mountjoy Ward except the portion thereof which is comprised in the Borough constituency of North-East Dublin. The townlands of :— Botanic Garden, Cabragh (Castleknock), Cabragh (Finglas), Castleknock (Phoenix Park), Chapel- izod, Grangegorman North, Prospect, Slutsend or West Farm, St. James, Tolka Park, V iolet Hill Great and V iolet Hill Little, in so far as the same are situate within the County Borough of Dublin. South The Fitzwilliam, Merchants Quay, Mansion House, Seven D ublin. New Kilmainham, Royal Exchange, South City, South Dock, Trinity, Ushers Quay and Wood Quay Wards, and the portion of the County Borough of Dublin bounded by a line drawn as follows :— Commencing at the point in the River Liffey where the Northern boundary of the South Dock Ward meets 4 BOROUGH CONSTITUENCIES—continued. Total Name of Number of Contents or Boundaries of Constituency Members Constituency for Constituency the Eastern boundary of the South Dock Ward and proceeding thence in a Southerly Westerly and Southerly direction to Grand Canal Street Upper and thence in a South-Easterly direction along the middle of Grand Canal Street Upper to Shelboume Road and thence in a South-Easterly direction along the middle of Shelboume Road to Lansdowne Road and thence in an Easterly direction along the middle of Lansdowne Road to Newbridge Avenue and thence in a North-Easterly direction along the middle of Newbridge Avenue to Sandymount Road and thence in a South-Easterly direction along the middle of Sandymount Road to Seafort Avenue and thence in in a North-Easterly direction along the middle of Seafort Avenue to the Coast and thence in a North- Westerly, North-Easterly and (to include the Pigeon House Fort and Poolbeg Lighthouse) Easterly and (round the Poolbeg Lighthouse) Westerly and Northerly direction to the point in the River Liffey where the Eastern boundary of the North Dock Ward meets the Southern boundary of the North Dock Ward and thence along the said Southern boundary of the North Dock Ward to the starting point. South The area referred to in the Local Government Three. D ublin. (Dublin) Act 1930 as the added Urban districts (except so much thereof as is included in the Borough Con ­ stituency of South-East Dublin) and the townland of Clonskeagh.