Juries (Amendment) Act, 1924
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Amendment of Section 12 of Electoral Act, 1923. |
9.—(1) Sub-section (5) of Section 12 of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted that there shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to the council of every county or county borough in aid of the fund or rate out of which any registration expenses are paid by that council in accordance with the said Act, the following proportions of the registration expenses so paid, that is to say— | |
(a) one-fourth of the amount paid by the council to the registration officer in respect of duties performed by any of the following officers who has or shall have been appointed after the 15th day of November, 1923, that is to say, in the case of an administrative county, the secretary of the council of the county or the clerk of the council of any urban district within the county, and, in the case of a county borough, the secretary or clerk of the council of the county borough, and | ||
(b) one-third of the amount paid by the council to the registration officer in respect of duties performed by rate-collectors appointed after the 15th day of November, 1923, and | ||
(c) one-half of all other registration expenses paid by the council aforesaid. | ||
(2) So much of Sub-section (7) of Section 12 of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), as enacts that one-half of the cost of the printing mentioned in the said sub-section shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, and the other half thereof shall be paid by the council mentioned in the said sub-section, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that three-sevenths of the cost of the printing mentioned in the said sub-section shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, and four-sevenths of the said costs shall be paid by the council by which the registration expenses of which such printing forms part are payable. |