Seanad amendment No. 13:Section 28:In page 39, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:(3) For the purposes of the local elections held in 2014, the definition of "ordinary day of retirement" in section 17(1) of the Principal Act shall be read—(a) in the case of every local authority (including a local authority that is being dissolved under section 17)—(i) as if the reference in that definition to the seventh day after the polling day at the election of the incoming members of the local authority were a reference to the 2014 establishment day, and (ii) as if the reference to the seventh day after the date provided for the purposes of paragraph (b) of that definition were a reference to the 2014 establishment day or the seventh day after the day on which the poll is completed or the fresh poll held, whichever is the later,and(b) in the case of a local authority that is being dissolved under section 24, as if that definition referred to the transfer date and to no other day referred to in that definition.".

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