No. 1/1925:

DUBLIN PORT AND DOCKS ACT, 1925

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Definitions.

2 Amendment of section 20 of the Principal Act.

3 Appointments of revisor of lists of electors of elective members in the year 1924.

4 Sittings for revision of lists by the revisor appointed for the year 1924.

5 Completion of revision of lists of electors of elective members by the revisor appointed for the year 1924.

6 Continuance in office, retirement, and election of certain members of the Board.

7 Short title.

AN ACT TO MAKE SPECIAL, PROVISION FOR THE DATE OF APPOINTMENT OF A REVISOR OF THE LISTS OF ELECTORS OF ELECTIVE MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN PORT AND DOCKS BOARD FOR THE YEAR 1924 AND TO MAKE SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE DATE OF THE HOLDING OF SITTINGS BY SUCH REVISOR FOR THE REVISION OF THE LISTS AFORESAID AND OF THE COMPLETION OF SUCH REVISION AND TO POSTPONE TO A DATE IN THE YEAR 1925 THE ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE SAID BOARD AND FOR THOSE AND OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND THE DUBLIN PORT AND DOCKS ACT, 1989

[12th February 1925.]

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

1.—In this Act—

the expression "Principal Act" means the Dublin Port and the and Docks Act, 1898;

the expression "the Board" means the Dublin Port and Docks Board.

2.—Section 20 or Principal Act shall be and is hereby amended by the substitution of the words "Chief Justice of the Irish Free State" for the words "Lord Chief Justice of Ireland" where the last mentioned words occur in sub-section(1) and sub-section (2) of that section, and the said section 20 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

3.—Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section(1) of section 20 of the Principal Act relating to the date in each year on or before which the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board is required by that sub-section to be appointed for each year, the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board is required by that sub-section to be appointed for each year, the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board for the year 1924 may be appointed under the said section 20 as amended by this Act on or before the 16th day of March, 1925.

4.—(1) The provisions of section 21 of the Principal Act (which relate to the holding by the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board appointed under section 20 of that Act of sittings) shall not apply to the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board to be appointed for the year 1924 under section 20 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act or to the Board for the year 1924 and in lieu and stead thereof the provisions of this section shall apply to such revisor and to such Board respectively.

(2) As soon as conveniently may be after the 19th day of March, 1925, the revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board appointed for the year 1924 under section 20 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall hold meetings for the revision of the lists aforesaid, and the Board shall previously publish notice of the first of such sittings which publication shall be completed not less than four or more than seven days before the day appointed for that sitting.

5.—The revisor of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board to be appointed for the year 1924 under section 20 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall complete the revision of the lists aforesaid on or before the 31st day of March, 1925, and the provisions of section 25 of the Principal Act relating to the date on or before which the revision of the lists of electors of elective members of the Board by the revisor appointed under section 20 of the Principal Act shall be completed in each year shall not apply to the revision of those lists for the year 1924 by the revisor to be appointed for that year under the said section 20 of the Act aforesaid as amended by this Act.

6.—The place of the members of the Board who went out of office on the second Thursday in the month of January, 1925, shall on and after the fourth Thursday in the month of April, 1925, be supplied by the election of a like number of members under sub-section (7) of section 7 of the Principal Act, and all the provisions of the Principal Act as amended by this Act in relation to an election under the said sub-section (7) shall apply to the election aforesaid save that such election shall be held on the Tuesday in the month of April, 1925, immediately preceding the fourth Thursday in that month in lieu of the day appointed by the said sub-section (7).

7.—This Act may be cited as the Dublin Port and Docks Act, 1925 .