Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1937
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Date of operation of census of population for the purposes of section 7 of the Principal Act. |
7.—(1) For the purpose of determining the census of population which is the latest such census within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Principal Act, the Minister shall, whenever a census of the population of Saorstát Eireann has been taken, certify by order the date of publication of the result of such census, and every such census shall be deemed for the purpose aforesaid, but no further or otherwise, to have been taken on the date of publication so certified in respect thereof. | |
(2) Whenever, on the taking of a census of the population of Saorstát Eireann, it is found that the population of an urban district which was shown by the next previous such census to exceed seven thousand, does not exceed seven thousand, such urban district shall, notwithstanding such decrease in the population thereof, continue to be an urban area for the purposes of the Principal Act until (but not including) the first Friday in the month of January next following the date of publication certified under this section in respect of such census and shall cease on the said Friday to be an urban area for the said purposes. | ||
(3) Whenever, on the taking of a census of population of Saorstát Eireann, it is found that the population of an urban district which was shown by the next previous such census not to exceed seven thousand exceeds seven thousand, such urban district shall, notwithstanding such increase in the population thereof, continue not to be an urban area for the purposes of the Principal Act until (but not including) the first Friday in the month of January next following the date of publication certified under this section in respect of such census and shall become on the said Friday an urban area for the said purposes. | ||
(4) This section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1936, and shall accordingly apply and have effect in relation to the census of the population of Saorstát Eireann taken in the year 1936. |