1911: 1 & 2 George 5 c.35: An Act to enable Women to be elected and act as Members of County and Borough Councils in Ireland.

[16th December 1911.]

BE it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

[Women to be eligible as county or borough councillors or aldermen in Ireland.]

1. — (1) A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected or chosen or being a councillor of the council of any county or borough or an alderman of the council of any borough:

Provided that a woman, if elected or chosen as chairman of a county council or mayor of a borough, shall not, by virtue of holding or having held that office, be a justice of the peace.

(2) Subsection (1) and the words “other than a borough” in subsection (2) of Article 12 of the schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, are hereby repealed.

[Short title.]

2. This Act shall apply to Ireland only and may be cited as the Local Authorities (Ireland) (Qualification of Women) Act, 1911.

Source: The Law Reports Public General Statutes, volume 49. 1911.