S.I. No. 239/1950:

LOCAL ELECTIONS (REMOVAL OF DIFFICULTY) ORDER, 1950.

LOCAL ELECTIONS (REMOVAL OF DIFFICULTY) ORDER, 1950.

WHEREAS a difficulty has arisen in the holding of the Local Election in the County of Donegal by reason of the poll for the parts of the County Electoral Area of Glenties known as Inishbofin, Inishmeane, Owey Island and Tory Island not having been taken on the day appointed under the Local Elections Act, 1948 (No. 8 of 1948) in that behalf, in consequence of the officers appointed to take the said poll being prevented by inclement weather from obtaining access to the said parts of the said County Electoral Area ;

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Local Government is of opinion that the said difficulty is an emergency requiring to be removed immediately ;

AND WHEREAS it appears to the said Minister to be necessary, to enable the said election to be properly held, to do the matters or things hereinafter appearing ;

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 62 of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923) as applied by Section 39 of the Local Government Act, 1941 (No. 23 of 1941), and adapted by the Local Elections Order, 1942 (S. R. & O., 1942, No. 255), hereby orders and directs as follows :--

1. The poll for each of the parts of the County Electoral Area of Glenties in the County of Donegal known respectively as Inishbofin, Inishmeane, Owey Island and Tory Island shall be taken on the first day on which it shall be found possible to obtain access thereto and shall be deemed to have been validly taken on the day on which the same shall have been actually taken.

2. This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Removal of Difficulty) Order, 1950.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Twenty-first day of September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KEYES,

Minister for Local Government.