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Amendment history

Article 21 has never been amended.
Below is the latest text of Article 21, as enacted on 1st Jul, 1937.

Article 21.

  1. 1:
    1. 1°:
      Money Bills shall be initiated in Dáil Éireann only.
    2. 2°:
      Every Money Bill passed by Dáil Éireann shall be sent to Seanad Éireann for its recommendations.
  2. 2:
    1. 1°:
      Every Money Bill sent to Seanad Éireann for its recommendations shall, at the expiration of a period not longer than twenty-one days after it shall have been sent to Seanad Éireann, be returned to Dáil Éireann, which may accept or reject all or any of the recommendations of Seanad Éireann.
    2. 2°:
      If such Money Bill is not returned by Seanad Éireann to Dáil Éireann within such twenty-one days or is returned within such twenty-one days with recommendations which Dáil Éireann does not accept, it shall be deemed to have been passed by both Houses at the expiration of the said twenty-one days.
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