Constitution (Amendment No. 2) Act 1927
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The Constitution (Amendment No. 2) Act 1927 (previously
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no. 34 of 1926) was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State which had been adopted in 1922. It amended Article 21 of the constitution to provide for the automatic re-election of the
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Dáil Éireann Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland read ...
. This provision was replicated in Article 16.6 of the Constitution of Ireland adopted in 1937. The Act became obsolete on the repeal of the 1922 Constitution in 1937, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2016.


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1927 in Irish law Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1920s Amendments to the Constitution of the Irish Free State {{Ireland-stub