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S.I. No. 374/2016 - Constituency Commission (Establishment) Order 2016.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 19th July, 2016.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 5 (1) of the Electoral Act 1997 (No. 25 of 1997), hereby order as follows:

1. This order may be cited as the Constituency Commission (Establishment) Order 2016.

2. A Constituency Commission is hereby established to perform the function assigned to it by Part II of the Electoral Act 1997 .

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

14 July 2016.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This order establishes a Constituency Commission to report on Dáil and European Parliament constituencies following on from Census 2016.