Election of Representative Peers (Ireland) Act 1882

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1882 c. 26
Year1882


Election of Representative Peers (Ireland) Act, 1882

(45 & 46 Vict.) CHAPTER 26.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Election of Lords Temporal to serve in Parliament for Ireland.

[12th July 1882]

Be it 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:

S-1 Reduction of period between teste of writ and election.

1 Reduction of period between teste of writ and election.

1. In the event of any future election of a Lord Temporal to serve in Parliament for Ireland, the period of fifty-two days from the teste of the writs for such election, within which it is required by the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland that the same shall be returned into the Crown Office of Ireland, shall be reduced to a period of thirty days.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theElection of Representative Peers (Ireland) Act, 1882.

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