S.I. No. 80/1954:

DAIL EIREANN GENERAL ELECTION ORDER, 1954.

DAIL EIREANN GENERAL ELECTION ORDER, 1954.

WHEREAS by sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1927 (No. 21 of 1927), it is enacted that at a general election the poll shall be held on such day not being earlier than the sixth nor later than the fourteenth day after the last day for receiving nominations as the Minister for Local Government shall appoint :

AND WHEREAS on the 24th day of April, 1954, a proclamation was issued dissolving Dáil Éireann :

AND WHEREAS under the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 18 of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), the last day for receiving nominations at the general election to be held as a consequence of the said proclamation is the 4th day of May, 1954

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the said sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1927 , hereby appoints and orders as follows :--

1. The 18th day of May, 1954, shall be the day on which at the said general election the poll shall be held in all constituencies.

2. This Order may be cited as the Dáil Éireann General Election Order, 1954.

GIVEN under the Officia Seal of the Minister for Local Government this twenty-fourth day of April, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-four.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Local Government.