Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929
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The Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 (previously
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no. 24 of 1928) was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It amended Article 34 of the constitution regarding the filling of casual vacancies in Seanad Éireann. Article 34 as enacted had provided that vacancies would be filled by a vote of the Seanad. Under Amendment No. 11, the provision was changed to provide that the vote would be by members 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 ...
and Seanad Éireann voting together. This is the electorate used for casual vacancies to the
vocational panel A vocational panel ( ga, rolla gairm bheatha) is any of five lists of candidates from which are elected a total of 43 of the 60 senators in Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of Ireland. Each panel corresponds to a gr ...
s in Seanad Éireann established by the Constitution of Ireland. The Act became obsolete on the repeal of the 1922 Constitution by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and was formally repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2016.


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1929 in Irish law Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1920s Amendments to the Constitution of the Irish Free State {{Ireland-stub