S.I. No. 44/1948 - Dáil Éireann General Election (Removal of Difficulty) Order, 1948.

WHEREAS a difficulty has arisen in the holding of the Dáil Éireann General Election proceeding at the date of this Order by reason of the poll for that portion of the County Constituency of West Donegal known as Owey Island not having been taken on the day appointed under the Electoral Act, 1923, in that behalf, in consequence of the officers appointed to take the said poll being prevented by inclement weather from obtaining access to the said Island from the Mainland :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Local Government is of opinion that the said difficulty is an emergency requiring to be removed immediately :

AND WHEREAS it appears to the said Minister necessary to enable the said election to be properly held to do the matters or things hereinafter appearing :

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 62 of the Electoral Act, 1923, hereby orders and directs as follows, that is to say :—

1. The poll for that portion of the County Constituency of West Donegal known as Owey Island, shall be taken on the first day on which it shall be found possible to cross thereto from the Mainland and shall be deemed to have been validly taken on the day on which the same shall have been actually taken.

2. This Order may be cited as the Dáil Éireann General Election (Removal of Difficulty) Order, 1948.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this fourth day of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Local Government.