17) was a law of Ireland which revised Dáil constituencies.
[1] It was the first revision of Dáil constituencies to adopt recommendations from an independent commission.
Its members were: Brian Walsh, judge of the Supreme Court and president of the Law Reform Commission, chair; Gerard Meagher, secretary of the Department of the Environment; and Michael Healy, clerk of the Dáil.
Its terms of reference were to take into account: It delivered its report on 21 April 1980.
It was repealed by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1983, which created a new schedule of constituencies (making minor changes to boundaries in Dublin only) first used at the 1987 general election for the 25th Dáil held on 17 February 1987.