Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1979
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Constituencies. |
2.—(1) For the purpose of taking the poll at a referendum referred to in section 1 of this Act— | |
(a) each county and each county borough in the State shall be deemed to be a constituency and the poll shall be taken separately in each such constituency, and | ||
(b) each voter at the poll shall record his vote in the constituency in which he would be entitled to vote at a general election of members of Dáil Éireann if each county and each county borough in the State were a constituency for such an election, | ||
and the Referendum Acts, 1942 to 1979, shall be construed as if each county and county borough in the State were a constituency and those Acts shall apply and have effect accordingly with any necessary modification. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section— | ||
(a) paragraphs (c) and (e) of section 11 of the Referendum Act, 1942 , shall not have effect in relation to a poll at a referendum referred to in the said section 1, and | ||
(b) the Referendum Act, 1942 , shall have effect in relation to a poll at a referendum referred to in the said section 1 as if “constituency” were substituted for “such constituency” in paragraphs (d) (inserted by the Electoral Act, 1963 ) and (f) of the said section 11. |