Second Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1941.

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SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1941.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Enactment of the amendments in the Schedule.

2.

Citation.

SCHEDULE.

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SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1941.


AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. [30th May, 1941.]

WHEREAS by virtue of Article 46 of the Constitution any provision of the Constitution may be amended in the manner provided by that Article:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by Article 51 of the Constitution that any of the provisions of the Constitution may, subject as thereinafter provided, be amended by the Oireachtas within a period of three years after the date on which the first President shall have entered upon his office:

AND WHEREAS the first President entered upon his office on the 25th day of June, 1938:

AND WHEREAS experience has shown that certain amendments of the Constitution are desirable:

AND WHEREAS it is therefore proposed that the several amendments of the Irish text and the English text respectively of the Constitution which are set out in the Schedule to this Act should be made by the Oireachtas:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—