1870: 33 Victoria c.11: Dublin Collector-General of Rates Franchise

1870: 33 Victoria c.11: An Act to enable the officers employed in the Collector-General of Rates’ office in the city of Dublin to vote at Parliamentary Elections for that city.

[12th May 1870.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament holden in the thirty-first and thirty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled

[31 & 32 Vict. c. 73.]

“An Act to relieve certain officers employed in the collection and management of Her Majesty’s revenues from any legal disability to vote at the election of members to serve in Parliament:”

And whereas the provisions of the said Act do not apply to the Collector-General of Rates in the city of Dublin, and to the officers and servants of the said collector-general appointed by virtue of an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled

[12 & 13 Vict c. 91.]

“An Act to provide for the collection of rates in the city of Dublin:”

And whereas the said collector-general, and the officers and servants employed for the purposes of the said last-recited Act are prohibited by the twenty-fourth section of the said Act from voting at any election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for the city of Dublin:

And whereas it is expedient that such prohibition should be repealed:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’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:

[Collector-General of Rates, and persons employed in his office, may vote at parliamentary elections for the city of Dublin.]

1. From and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Collector-General of Rates in the city of Dublin, and for the clerks, officers, and servants of the said collector-general, appointed under the provisions of the said “Act to provide for the collection of rates in the city of Dublin,” when duly registered, to vote at any election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for the city of Dublin without incurring any penalty or forfeiture, anything contained in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Source: Public General Statutes, 1870.