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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - LONG TITLE

An Act to extend the local government franchise; to lower the age
at which persons may be registered as electors and vote at
parliamentary and local govenment elections; to postpone triennial
elections; to alter the years in which registers of parliamentary
and local electors are published and in which polling station
schemes are prepared; and for purposes connected with the matters
aforesaid or any of them.
[25th November 1969]
Amendment of 1962 c.14.

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 1

1. ... the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (in this Act
referred to as "the principal Act") shall be amended in the manner
specified in Schedule 1.

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2
Voting age.

2.(1) For the purposes of the principal Act, a person shall be of
voting age if he is of the age of eighteen or over; and, if
otherwise qualified, a person who is of voting age on the date of
the poll

(a)at a parliamentary election; or

(b)at a local election where the poll is held before the end of
the twelve months following the day on which the register used at
the poll is required to be published;

Subs.(2)(5) insert s.2A in, substitute s.130(4) of, and amend schs.1,
7 to 1962 c.14 (NI)

S.3 rep. by SLR 1980. S.4 rep. by 1971 c.4 (NI) s.5(3) sch. S.5
(rep. in pt.) amends s.15 of 1962 c.14 (NI). S.6 rep. by SLR 1980

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 7
Short title, construction, citation and interpretation.

7.(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral Law Act (Northern
Ireland) 1969 and shall be construed as one with the Electoral Law
Acts (Northern Ireland) 1962 and 1968 and those Acts and this Act
may be cited together as the Electoral Law Acts (Northern Ireland)
1962 to 1969.

(2) In this Act, the expression "the principal Act" means the
Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 and expressions to which a
meaning is assigned by that Act shall have the same meaning for
the purposes of this Act.

Subs.(3) rep. by 1971 c.4 (NI) s.5(3) sch.

SchedulesAmendments. Schedule 2 rep. by SLR 1980