Next (SCHEDULE. Particulars of Amendments.)

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SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1941.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Enactment of the amendments in the Schedule.

2.

Citation.

SCHEDULE.

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SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1941.


AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. [30th May, 1941.]

WHEREAS by virtue of Article 46 of the Constitution any provision of the Constitution may be amended in the manner provided by that Article:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by Article 51 of the Constitution that any of the provisions of the Constitution may, subject as thereinafter provided, be amended by the Oireachtas within a period of three years after the date on which the first President shall have entered upon his office:

AND WHEREAS the first President entered upon his office on the 25th day of June, 1938:

AND WHEREAS experience has shown that certain amendments of the Constitution are desirable:

AND WHEREAS it is therefore proposed that the several amendments of the Irish text and the English text respectively of the Constitution which are set out in the Schedule to this Act should be made by the Oireachtas:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Enactment of the amendments in the Schedule.

1. Upon the passing of this Act the several amendments of the Irish text and the English text respectively of the Constitution which are specified in the Schedule to this Act shall forthwith become and be effective and, for that purpose, every Article of the Constitution mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule shall—

(a) as respects the Irish text thereof, be amended in the manner stated in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention, or each of the several mentions, of the Article in the said second column, and

(b) as respects the English text thereof, be amended in the manner stated in the fourth column of the said Schedule opposite the mention, or each of the several mentions, of the Article in the said second column.

Citation.

2. (1) The several amendments of the Constitution effected by this Act shall be collectively known as and may for all purposes be collectively referred to as the Second Amendment of the Constitution, and any particular one of those amendments may, for purposes of identification, be referred to by the number in the first column of the Schedule to this Act opposite the statement of such amendment in the other columns of the said Schedule.

(2) This Act may be cited as the Second Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1941.