Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2013
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Contingent amendments and construction provision. |
7.— (1) If the Seanad Abolition Bill is enacted into law— | |
(a) in the event that the abolition day falls after the establishment day, section 4, inserted by the Seanad Abolition Bill, of Article 35 of the Constitution shall be amended, from the abolition day— | ||
(i) as respects the Irish text, in the manner stated in Part 1 of Schedule 8 , and | ||
(ii) as respects the English text, in the manner stated in Part 2 of Schedule 8 , | ||
(b) in the event that the abolition day falls before the establishment day, a reference in Schedule 6 to section 4 of Article 35 of the Constitution shall, from the establishment day, be construed as a reference to the section of that Article inserted by the Seanad Abolition Bill. | ||
(2) In this section— | ||
(a) “the abolition day” has the same meaning as it has in the amendment of the Constitution made by section 2 of the Seanad Abolition Bill; | ||
(b) “the Seanad Abolition Bill” means the Bill entitled the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013 and initiated in Dáil Éireann on 4 June 2013; | ||
(c) a reference to the Seanad Abolition Bill being enacted into law is a reference to that Bill being enacted into law in accordance with Articles 46 and 47.1 of the Constitution. |