Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018
1. Amendment of Article 40 of the Constitution
1. Article 40 of the Constitution is hereby amended as follows:
(a) “ceannairceach” shall be substituted for “diamhaslach nó ceannairceach” in paragraph i of subsection 1 of section 6 of the Irish text;
(b) “seditious” shall be substituted for “blasphemous, seditious,” in paragraph i of subsection 1 of section 6 of the English text.
2. Citation
2. (1) The amendment of the Constitution effected by this Act shall be called the Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution.
(2) This Act may be cited as the Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Act 2018.
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