Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1986

Amendment of European Assembly Elections Act, 1977.

2.Section 14 of the European Assembly Elections Act, 1977 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) There shall for the purposes of this Act be a local returning officer for every county or county borough contained in a constituency and the local returning officer shall be—

(a) in the case of the counties of Cork and Dublin and the county boroughs of Cork and Dublin, the sheriff, and

(b) in every other case, the county registrar.”.