Constitution (Amendment No. 7) Act , 1928

1 Amendment of Article 31 of the Constitution.

1.—Article 31 of the Constitution shall be and is hereby amended by the deletion of the words “of a member of Seanad Eireann shall be twelve years” now contained therein and the insertion, in lieu of the words so deleted, of the words “of members of Seanad Eireann shall, in the case of the members elected (otherwise than under Article 34 of this Constitution) at the election held in pursuance of Article 32 of this Constitution in the year 1925, be twelve years, and shall, in the case of the members elected at the election held pursuant to the said Article 32 to fill the places of members of Seanad Eireann who are due to retire in the year 1928, be as provided in Article 32 B of this Constitution and shall, in every other case but subject to the provisions of the said Article 34, be nine years.”

2 Amendment of Article 32 of the Constitution.

2.—Article 32 of the Constitution shall be and is hereby amended as follows, that is to say:—

(a) by the deletion of the words “One-fourth” now contained therein and the insertion, in lieu of the words so deleted, of the words “Save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, one third,” and

(b) by the addition at the end of the said Article of the following sentence, that is to say,

“At the election held in pursuance of this Article to fill the places of members of Seanad Eireann who are due to retire in the year 1928, one-fourth only of the members of Seanad Eireann shall be elected under this Article.”

3 Special provision as to election for 1928.

3.—The Constitution shall be and is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the following Article immediately after Article 32 A now contained therein, that is to say:—

“32 B. The respective terms of office of the several members of Seanad Eireann elected at the election held pursuant to Article 32 of this Constitution to fill the places of members of Seanad Eireann who are due to retire in the year 1928 shall be as follows, that is to say:—

(a) the first five members so elected shall hold office for nine years,

(b) so many of the members so elected after such first five members as are necessary to fill under Article 34 of this Constitution additional vacancies (if any) originally created by the death, resignation, or disqualification of members of Seanad Eireann who were due to retire in the year 1937 shall hold office for nine years,

(c) the next five members so elected shall hold office for six years,

(d) so many of the members so elected after the last-mentioned five members as are necessary to fill under Article 34 of this Constitution additional vacancies (if any) originally created by the death, resignation, or disqualification of members of Seanad Eireann who were due to retire in the year 1934 shall hold office for six years,

(e) all other members so elected shall hold office for three years.

The proviso to the said Article 34 shall not apply to the said election,”

4 Amendment of Article 34 of the Constitution.

4.—Article 34 of the Constitution shall be and is hereby amended by the deletion of the word “fifteen” now contained therein and the insertion of the word “twenty” in lieu of the word so deleted and by the deletion of the word “sixteenth” now contained therein and the insertion of the words “twenty-first” in lieu of the word so deleted.

5 Short title.

5.—This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Amendment No. 7) Act, 1928.