Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1959
Acts of the Oireachtas
Source: Acts of the Oireachtas

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paragraphs: —At a constitutional referendum—
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paragraphs: —The Referendum Act, 1942 , shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.
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paragraphs: —Where—
(a) a person is entitled to vote at the poll at a referendum,
(b) he is employed, by the local returning officer for the constituency in which he is entitled to vote, for any purpose in connection with the poll in that constituency, and
(c) the circumstances of his employment are, in the opinion of that officer, such as to prevent him from voting at the polling station at which he would otherwise be entitled to vote,
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paragraphs: —(1) Whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the day on which the poll at an election of a person to the office of President of Ireland or at a general election is taken, an authorisation under section 3 of this Act, as well as operating to authorise the person to whom it is given to vote at the poll at the referendum at the polling station specified in the authorisation, shall also operate to authorise him to vote at the poll at the election at that polling station, and that polling station shall, for the purposes of (as may be appropriate) rule 7 of the rules contained in the First Schedule to the Presidential Elections Act, 1937 , or rule 16 of the rules contained in the Fifth Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 , be deemed to be the polling station allotted to him.
(2) Section 28 of the Referendum Act, 1942 , as well as applying whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the polling day at a general election, shall also apply whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the day on which the poll at an election of a person to the office of President of Ireland is taken and, for that purpose, references in that section to a general election shall be construed as including references to an election of a person to that office.
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paragraphs: —At a constitutional referendum in relation to the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1958—
(a) a polling card sent under subsection (1) of section 4 of the Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1946 , shall contain the statement set out in the Appendix to this section,
(b) a polling card shall also be sent by the local returning officer for a constituency to every elector whose name is on the register of DÃ¡il electors for such constituency and is on the postal voters' list for such constituency,
(c) a polling card sent under paragraph (b) of this section—
(i) shall indicate that it is for a postal voter and shall accordingly not state the number and situation of polling place referred to in subsection (1) of the said section 4,
(ii) shall contain the statement referred to in paragraph (a) of this section, and
(iii) shall be sent by post to the elector at the same time as his ballot paper is sent, being addressed to him at the same address as is stated on the envelope in which the ballot paper is sent,
(d) subsections (3) to (6) of the said section 4 shall apply in relation to polling cards sent under paragraph (b) of this section,
(e) copies of the statement referred to in paragraph (a) of this section may be displayed in or in the precincts of polling stations,
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paragraphs: —(1) This Act may be cited as the Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1959.
(2) The Referendum Acts, 1942 and 1946 , and this Act may be cited together as the Referendum Acts, 1942 to 1959.
(3) This Act shall be construed as one with the Referendum Acts, 1942 and 1946.