S.I. No. 267/1948 -- Dublin County Council Order, 1948.

S.I. No. 267/1948 -- Dublin County Council Order, 1948. 1948 267

S.I. No. 267/1948:

DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ORDER, 1948.

WHEREAS the Dublin County Council Order, 1942 (hereinafter called " the Principal Order ") made in pursuance of Section 33 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , fixed the total number of the members of the Council of the County of Dublin (hereinafter called " the Council ") divided the said County into county electoral areas and fixed the number of the members of the Council to be elected for each such county electoral area :

AND WHEREAS in pursuance of Article 25 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, the Council represented to the Minister for Local Government (hereinafter called " the Minister ") that the alteration of the number of members of the Council is desirable and that the number of such members should be increased to not less than twenty-five :

AND WHEREAS the Minister caused a local inquiry to be held into the said representation :

AND WHEREAS the Minister deems it expedient to alter the number of members of the Council, to amend the division, made by the Principal Order, of the County of Dublin into county electoral areas and to alter the number of members of the Council to be elected from each of the electoral areas in the said County :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister in exercise of the powers vested in him by Article 25 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, and subsection (7) of section 33 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , and in the exercise of every other power in that behalf enabling him, hereby, orders as follows :--

1. The number of members of the Council to be elected at the election held next after the date of this Order, and at each succeeding election until the Minister shall otherwise provide, shall be twenty-five.

2. The Principal Order is hereby amended by the substitution of the Schedule hereto for the Schedule to the said Order.

3.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Dublin County Council Order, 1948.

(2) This Order and the Principal Order shall be read as one and may be cited collectively as the Dublin County Council Orders, 1942 and 1948.

SCHEDULE.

Name of County Electoral Area	Contents of County Electoral Area	Number of members to be elected for each county electoral area
No. 1	The existing District Electoral Divisions of :--	Five.
	Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Coolock, Donabate, Garristown, Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Howth Rural, Kilsallaghan, Kinsaley, Lusk, Malahide, Rush, Skerries, Swords East and Swords West.
No. 2	The existing District Electoral Divisions of :--	Four.
	Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Clondalkin, Clonsilla, Drumcondra Rural, Finglas, Lucan and Palmerstown.
No. 3	The existing District Electoral Divisions of :--	Three.
	Newcastle, Rathcoole, Rathfarnham, Saggart, Tallaght and Terenure.
No. 4	The existing District Electoral Divisions of :--	Five.
	Ballybrack, Dundrum, Glencullen, Milltown, Rathmichael, Stillorgan and Whitechurch.
No. 5	The Borough of Dun Laoghaire	Eight.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this seventh day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) T. J. MURPHY,

Minister for Local Government.

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S.I. No. 267/1948 -- Dublin County Council Order, 1948.