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Electoral areas in the city.
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3.—(1) The Minister may by order—
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(a) make a new division of the city into electoral areas, and
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(b) assign to each such electoral area the number of members of the city council to be elected therefor.
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(2) It shall be obligatory on the Minister to make an order under this section before the election of members of the city council held next after the passing of this Act.
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(3) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Minister may make an order under this section whenever and so often as he thinks proper.
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(4) The electoral areas into which the city is divided by an order under this section shall be five or more in number and such areas shall be the borough electoral areas in the city for the purposes of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, and subsequent enactments.
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(5) In assigning by an order under this section the numbers of members to be elected for the electoral areas specified in the order, the Minister shall have regard to the populations and rateable valuations of such areas.
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(6) The division of the city into electoral areas made by an order under this section shall (without prejudice to any subsequent such order) have effect for the purposes of the election of members of the city council held next after the order is made and thereafter.
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(7) The number of members to be elected, at every election of members of the city council held after the making of an order under this section, for each electoral area specified in the order shall (without prejudice to any subsequent such order) be the number assigned by the order to that electoral area.
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(8) Every order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as conveniently may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next seven days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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