Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910; Land tenure -- Ireland
(3) Every man shall be entitled to be registered as an elector, and when
registered to vote at an election, of a councillor for a constituency, who
owns or occupies any land or tenement in the constituency of a rateable
value of more than _twenty_ pounds, subject to the like conditions as a
man is entitled at the passing of this Act to be registered and vote as a
Parliamentary elector in respect of an ownership qualification, or of the
qualification specified in section five of the Representation of the
People Act, 1884, as the case may be: Provided that a man shall not be
entitled to be registered, nor if registered to vote, at an election of a
councillor in more than one constituency in the same year.
(4) The term of office of every councillor shall be _eight_ years, and
shall not be affected by a dissolution; and one _half_ of the Councillors
shall retire in every _fourth_ year, and their seats shall be filled by a
new election.
[Sidenote: Composition of Irish Legislative Assembly.]
=7.=--(1) The Irish Legislative Assembly shall consist of _one hundred and
three_ members, returned by the existing parliamentary constituencies in
Ireland, or the existing divisions thereof, and elected by the
parliamentary electors for the time being in those constituencies or
divisions.
(2) The Irish Legislative Assembly when summoned may, unless sooner
dissolved, have continuance for _five_ years from the day on which the
summons directs it to meet and no longer.
(3) After _six_ years from the passing of this Act, the Irish Legislature
may alter the qualification of the electors, and the constituencies, and
the distribution of the members among the constituencies, provided that in
such distribution due regard is had to the population of the
constituencies.
[Sidenote: Disagreement between two Houses, how settled.]
=8.= If a Bill, or any provision of a Bill, adopted by the Legislative
Assembly is lost by the disagreement of the Legislative Council, and after
a dissolution, or the period of _two years_ from such disagreement, such
Bill, or a Bill for enacting the said provision, is again adopted by the
Legislative Assembly, and fails within three months afterwards to be
adopted by the Legislative Council, the same shall forthwith be submitted
to the members of the two Houses deliberating and voting together thereon,
and shall be adopted or rejected according to the decision of the majority
of those members present and voting on the question.
_Irish Representation in House of Commons._
[Sidenote: Representation in Parliament of Irish counties and boroughs.]
=9.= Unless and until Parliament otherwise determines, the following
provisions shall have effect:--
(1) After the _appointed day_ each of the constituencies named in the
Second Schedule to this Act shall return to serve in Parliament the
number of members named opposite thereto in that Schedule, and no
more, and Dublin University shall cease to return any member.
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