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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - LONG TITLE

An Act to abolish the university constituency for the purposes of
elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland; to create four new
constituencies and alter the areas of other constituencies; to
abolish the occupation of business premises as a qualification for
electors at such elections; to enable the age at which persons
qualify to be registered as parliamentary electors to be altered; to
establish a permanent Boundary Commission and to provide for the
review of the distribution of seats at such elections; and for
purposes connected with the matters aforesaid or any of them.
[28th November 1968]
S.1 rep. by SLR 1980. S.2 rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6

Amendments to 1962 c.14.

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 3

3. ... the principal Act shall be amended in the manner provided
by Schedule 2.

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 4
Commencement of sections 1, 2 and 3 and Schedules 1, 2 and 4.

4.(1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 and Schedules 1, 2 and 4 shall come
into force for the purposes of the first general election after the
passing of this Act...

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1980

(3) The Minister of Home Affairs may by order make provision for
any other matters which appear to him to be incidental to or
consequential on the provisions of sections 1 to 3 and Schedule 1.

S.5 rep. by SLR 1980. S.6 rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6.
S.7(1)(2) rep. by SLR 1980; subs.(3) amends sch.8 to 1962 c.14
(NI). S.8 rep. by SLR 1980

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 9
Short title, construction, citation and interpretation.

9.(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral Law Act (Northern
Ireland) 1968 and shall be construed as one with the principal Act
and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Electoral
Law Acts (Northern Ireland) 1962 and 1968.

(2) In this Act the expression "the principal Act" means the
Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962.

Schedule 1 rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6. Schedule
2Amendments. Schedule 3 rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6.
Schedule 4 rep. by SLR 1980


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