Bill to amend provision for Government of Ireland [as amended in Committee, and on Consideration]

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32 Government of Ireland [56 & 57 Vict.] 
A.D. 
1893. 
(c) the registers of electors of each county shall jointly be the register of 

electors for the constituency. 
(d) for the purposes of this Schedule " county " includes a county of a city or town, and this Schedule, and the law relating to the qualification of electors shall apply, as if the county of a city or town formed part of 5 the county at large with which it is combined, and the qualification in the county of a city or town shall be the same as in such county at large. 
(3.) 
Writs shall be issued for the election of councillors at such time not less than one nor more than thrte months before the day for the periodical retirement of councillors as the Lord Lieutenant in Council may fix. 
10 (4.) 
The day for the periodical retirement of councillors shall until otherwise provided by Irish Act be the last day of August in every fourth year. 
(5.) 
For the purposes of such retirement, the constituencies shall be divided into two equal divisions, and the constituencies in each province shall be divided as nearly as may be equally between those divisions, and constituencies 15 returning two or more members shall be treated as two or more con¬ stituencies, and placed in both divisions. 
(6.) 
Subject as aforesaid, the particular constituencies which are to be in each division shall be determined by lot. 

(7.) 
The said division and lot shall be made and conducted before the 20 appointed day in manner directed by the Lord Lieutenant in Council. 
(8.) 
The first councillors elected for the constituencies in the first division shall retire on the first day of retirement which occurs after the first meeting of the Irish Legislature, and the first councillors for the constituencies in the second division shall retire on the second day of retirement after that meeting. 
£5 (9.) 
Any casual vacancy among the councillors shall be filled by a new election, but the councillor filling the vacancy shall retire at the time at which the vacating councillor would have retired. 

Legislative Assembly. 
(10.) 
The Parliamentary register of electors for the time being shall, until 30 otherwise provided by Irish Act, be the register of electors of the Legislative Assembly. 

Both Rouses. 
(11.) 
Until otherwise provided by Irish Act, the Lord Lieutenant in Council — may make regulations for adapting the existing election laws to the election of 25 members of the two Houses of the Legislature. 
(12.) 
Annual sessions of the Legislature shall be held. 
(13.) 
Any peer, whether of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Scotland, or Ireland shall be qualified to be a member of either House. 
(14.) 
A member of either House may by writing under his hand resign his 30 seat, and the same shall thereupon be vacant. 
(15.) 
The same person shall not be a member of both Houses,