HC Deb 15 August 1893 vol 16 cc245-6
SIR T. LEA (Londonderry, S.)

I beg to ask the Attorney General if there is any provision in the Ballot Act which prevents an ordinary Parliamentary Election from taking place on a Sunday; and, if so, which section?

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL (SIR J. RIGBY,) Forfar

As the hon. Member has probably ascertained, there is no section in the Ballot Act which expressly provides that elections shall not be held on a Sunday, but if such an enactment was required it is to be implied from the terms of Section 56 of the First Schedule to the Act.

SIR T. LEA

But would that hold good as a legal preventative?

MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)

Does not the section provide that in the reckoning of time Sunday is not to count? Is not that sufficient?

[These questions were not answered.]