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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - LONG TITLE

An Act to advance the date for the extension of the local
government franchise; to provide for annual registers of parliamentary
and local electors; to postpone triennial elections for local
authorities; and to alter the method of filling casual vacancies in
local authorities other than county boroughs and boroughs; and for
purposes connected with those matters or any of them.
[25th February 1971]
S.1 rep. by SLR 1980

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 2
Annual registers of parliamentary and local electors.

2.(1) Registers of parliamentary and local electors shall be
published in every year commencing with the year nineteen hundred
and seventy-one and accordingly

Paras.(a)(b) rep. by SLR 1980; para.(c) spent; para.(d) amends s.28
of 1962 c.14 (NI); paras.(e)(f) rep. by SLR 1980

Short title, construction, citation, interpretation and repeals.

ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 5

5.(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral Law Act (Northern
Ireland) 1971 and shall be construed as one with the Electoral Law
Acts (Northern Ireland) 1962 to 1969 and those Acts and this Act
may be cited together as the Electoral Law Acts (Northern Ireland)
1962 to 1971.

(2) In this Act, the expression "the principal Act" means the
Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 and expressions to which a
meaning is assigned by that Act shall have the same meaning for
the purposes of this Act.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1980