The Constitution (Amendment No. 2) Act 1927 (previously
bill
Bill(s) may refer to:
Common meanings
* Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
* Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
* Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
* Bill, a bird or animal's beak
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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
Ceann Comhairle
The (; "Head of heCouncil"; plural usually ) is the chairperson (or speaker) of , the lower house of the (parliament) of Ireland. The person who holds the position is elected by members of the from among their number in the first session a ...
of
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The Act became obsolete on the repeal of the 1922 Constitution in 1937, and was repealed by the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.
References
1927 in Irish law
Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1920s
Amendments to the Constitution of the Irish Free State
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