Minutes:
“To amend the Council's litter bye-laws to prohibit the use of council property (i.e. street furniture and lamp-posts) for the erection of election material/advertisements during the allotted period of time in which it is permissible to advertise election material under the below legislation (1-8) and instead allow Local Area Committees to designate specific areas, such as village centres or shopping precincts, where an equal amount of space can be allocated to each candidate running in the ward/constituency to display their electoral material, e.g. Photo, contact details, biography, message to voters.
1. Litter Pollution Act 1997, amended by the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2009
2. Protection of the Environment Act 2003
3. Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2013
4. European Parliament Elections Act 1997
5. Local Elections Regulations 1995
6. Referendum Act 1994
7. Electoral Act 1992
8. Road Traffic Act 1961
An Amendment (No 1) was put forward by Cllrs Ryan, Dunne, Perry & Hand as follows – to add the following wording to the original motion ““The Council recognises that these measures may have the unintended impact of increasing the use of paid advertising spaces (including, for example, bus shelters, buses, commercial advertising billboards, etc) during election periods. To avoid this, all such spaces should be subject to the same guidelines as council spaces during election periods”
The following amended motion was then put and carried “To amend the Council's litter bye-laws to prohibit the use of council property (i.e. street furniture and lamp-posts) for the erection of election material/advertisements during the allotted period of time in which it is permissible to advertise election material under the below legislation (1-8) and instead allow Local Area Committees to designate specific areas, such as village centres or shopping precincts, where an equal amount of space can be allocated to each candidate running in the ward/constituency to display their electoral material, e.g. Photo, contact details, biography, message to voters.
1. Litter Pollution Act 1997, amended by the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2009
2. Protection of the Environment Act 2003
3. Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2013
4. European Parliament Elections Act 1997
5. Local Elections Regulations 1995
6. Referendum Act 1994
7. Electoral Act 1992
8. Road Traffic Act 1961
The Council recognises that these measures may have the unintended impact of increasing the use of paid advertising spaces (including, for example, bus shelters, buses, commercial advertising billboards, etc) during election periods.
To avoid this, all such spaces should be subject to the same guidelines as council spaces during election periods”
An Amendment (No 2) was then put forward by Sinn Fein Group as follows : To delete the words from ‘bye-laws’ to ‘allow’ and all words after ‘material. The following amended motion was then put and carried - “To amend the Council's litter bye-laws to allow Local Area Committees to designate specific areas, such as village centres or shopping precincts, where an equal amount of space can be allocated to each candidate running in the ward/constituency to display their electoral material”
An Amendment (No 3) was then put forward by Cllrs Freehill & Lacey as follows – The addition of the following wording : “That all proposals & amendments be examined by the Environment & Transportation Dept (of DCC) and to report back on a realistic model that could be implemented. That this report be sent to all Members and discussed by the full Council within 6 months”
Accordingly, the following final amended motion was put and carried “To amend the Council's litter bye-laws to allow Local Area Committees to designate specific areas, such as village centres or shopping precincts, where an equal amount of space can be allocated to each candidate running in the ward/constituency to display their electoral material and that all proposals & amendments be examined by the Environment & Transportation Dept (of DCC) and to report back on a realistic model that could be implemented. That this report be sent to all Members and discussed by the full Council within 6 months”