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Provisions in respect of referenda having the same polling day.
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58.—Where the same day is the polling day in respect of two or more referenda and a referendum petition or two or more referendum petitions questioning the provisional referendum certificate relating to one only of the referenda is or are presented in accordance with this Act, or referendum petitions questioning some but not all of the provisional referendum certificates relating to the referenda are presented in accordance with this Act, the following provisions shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in this Act:
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(a) a provisional referendum certificate relating to any of the referenda shall, pending the operation of paragraph (e), not become final;
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(b) it shall be lawful for the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the court, to present at any time a referendum petition questioning any provisional referendum certificate which relates to any of the referenda and has not been confirmed by the court and is not the subject of a referendum petition presented in accordance with this Act;
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(c) all the referendum petitions questioning any of the provisional referendum certificates relating to any of the referenda shall, so far as practicable, be heard and determined by the same judge, and all or any two or more of the referendum petitions may, at the discretion of the court, either be tried together or consolidated;
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(d) the final orders of the court on all the trials of the referendum petitions shall be made on the same day;
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(e) when the final orders have been made, every provisional referendum certificate relating to any of the referenda in respect of which no referendum petition was presented in accordance with this Act shall be deemed to have been confirmed by the court, and the court shall cause to be endorsed on every such certificate a statement that it is deemed to have been confirmed by the court, and the court shall cause the certificate so endorsed to be returned forthwith to the referendum returning officer;
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(f) the referendum returning officer shall deliver to the court for endorsement under the foregoing paragraph every provisional referendum certificate which is deemed under that paragraph to have been confirmed by the court, and every such certificate when so endorsed and received by the referendum returning officer from the court shall forthwith become and be final and incapable of being questioned in any court and shall be conclusive evidence of the voting at and result of the referendum to which it relates.
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