Parliamentary Elections (Ireland) Act 1823

1823 CHAPTER 55 4 Geo 4

An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts now in force so far as the same relate to the Election and Return of Members to serve in Parliament for Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland.

[8th July 1823]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2 Reference to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298; 1923, p. 400), art. 2

C3 Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)

1.—73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1–73, 75–87 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1948 (c. 65), Sch. 13

74 Election of persons under 21 years shall be void, and new writs shall be issued. U.K.

Every election or return of any persons to serve in Parliament for any county of a city or county of a town, who shall be under the age of twenty-one years, shall be deemed null and void; and if it shall be determined by any committee of the House of Commons who shall try any petition presented against any such election or return, that such person was under the age of twenty-one years on the day of such election, a new writ shall forthwith issue for the election of another person in his place.

75.—87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 1–73, 75–87 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1948 (c. 65), Sch. 13