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Amendment history

Date Amendment Change type
25th Jun, 1938 omitted
Below is the latest text of Article 62, as omitted on 25th Jun, 1938.

Article 62.

This Constitution shall come into operation

  1. i:
    on the day following the expiration of a period of one hundred and eighty days after its approval by the people signified by a majority of the votes cast at a plebiscite thereon held in accordance with law, or,
  2. ii:
    on such earlier day after such approval as may be fixed by a resolution of Dáil Éireann elected at the general election the polling for which shall have taken place on the same day as the said plebiscite.