ELECTORAL (REGISTRATION APPEALS) ACT, 1932

Type Act

Publication 1932-12-16

Last updated 1963-07-12

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AN ACT TO TRANSFER REGISTRATION APPEALS IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DUBLIN AND IN UNIVERSITY CONSTITUENCIES FROM THE REVISING BARRISTERS TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. [16th December 1932.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

1 Definitions.

1.—(1) In this Act the expression “Principal Act” means the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923).

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act which are also used in the Principal Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning in this Act as they respectively have in the Principal Act.

2 Registration appeals in Dublin and university constituencies.

2.—(1) In the county borough of Dublin, and in a university constituency, and in the county of Dublin the appeal under section 16 of the Principal Act from the registration officer shall be to the Judge of the Circuit Court exercising the jurisdiction of that Court in the registration area of such registration officer, and the said section (so far as it is not repealed by this Act or any previous Act) shall apply to such appeals subject to the modifications that references to the County Court, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeal respectively shall be construed and have effect as references to the Circuit Court, the Chief Justice of Saorstát Eireann, and the Supreme Court respectively.

(2) The said section 16, in its application to the registration of local government electors pursuant to the Local Government Electors Registration Act, 1924 (No. 7 of 1924), shall have effect subject to the provisions of this Act.

(3) For the purposes of the said section 16 as applied by this section, the registration area of a university constituency shall be deemed to be situate in the City of Dublin.

3 Repeals.

3.—The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

4 Short title.

4.—This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Registration Appeals) Act, 1932.

SCHEDULE. Enactments Repealed.


Session and Chapter.	Short Title.	Extent of Repeal.
20 & 21 Vic., c. 68.	The Dublin Revising Barristers Act, 1857.	The whole Act so far as unrepealed.
24 & 25 Vic., c. 56.	The Dublin Revising Barristers Act, 1861.	The whole Act so far as unrepealed.
47 & 48 Vic., c. 35.	The County of Dublin Jurors' and Voters' Revision Act, 1884.	The whole Act so far as unrepealed.
7 & 8 Geo. V., c. 64.	The Representation of the People Act, 1918.	Sub-section (5) of section 44.
No. 12 of 1923.	The Electoral Act, 1923.	The second proviso to sub-section (1) of section 16, and so much of sub-sections (4), (6) and (8) of section 16 as relates to revising barristers.

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