35Amendment of s. 5 of Representation of the People Act, 1949
(1)On and after the sixteenth day of May first occurring after the passing of this Act, section five of the Representation of the People Act, 1949, shall, in so far as it qualifies for the local government franchise an owner of lands and heritages who does not occupy the same, cease to have effect, and accordingly paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the said section shall on and after the said date have effect as if for the words " the owner or occupier as tenant of" there were substituted the words" occupying as owner or tenant".
(2)On and after the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, subsection (7) of the said section five shall have effect as if for paragraph (d) thereof there were substituted the following paragraph:—
“(d)the expression "yearly value " in relation to any lands and heritages shall mean—
(i)where the lands and heritages are separately entered in the valuation roll, the gross annual value appearing in the said roll in respect thereof or, in the case of lands and heritages for which the assessor is not required to ascertain a gross annual value, the net annual value appearing in respect thereof;
(ii)where the lands and heritages are not separately entered in the valuation roll, the gross annual value, or, in the case of lands and heritages for which the assessor is not required to ascertain a gross annual value, the net annual value, which would in the opinion of the registration officer appear in respect of such lands and heritages if they were separately entered in the said roll.”