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Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2001 | 
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TWENTY-THIRD AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 2001 | 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS | 
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SCHEDULE
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Part 2
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TWENTY-THIRD AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 2001 | 
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. [27th March, 2002] | 
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WHEREAS by virtue of Article 46 of the Constitution any provision of the Constitution may be amended in the manner provided by that Article: | 
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AND WHEREAS it is proposed to amend Article 29 of the Constitution: | 
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BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: | 
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Amendment of Article 29 of the Constitution. | 
1.—Article 29 of the Constitution is hereby amended as follows: | 
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(a) the section the text of which is set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Act shall be inserted after section 8 of the Irish text, | 
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(b) the section the text of which is set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to this Act shall be inserted after section 8 of the English text. | 
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2.—(1) The amendment of the Constitution effected by this Act shall be called the Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution. | 
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(2) This Act may be cited as the Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2001. | 
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SCHEDULE | 
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Part 1 | 
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9 Tig leis an Stát Reacht na Róimhe den Chúirt Choiriúil Idirnáis-iúnta, a rinneadh sa Róimh an 17ú lá d'Iúil, 1998, a dhaingniú. | 
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Part 2 | 
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9 The State may ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court done at Rome on the 17th day of July, 1998. |