Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2001

Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2001

7 June 2001 (2001-06-07)
To permit the state to ratify the Treaty of Nice
Results
Choice Votes % Yes 453,461 46.13% No 529,478 53.87% Valid votes 982,939 98.51% Invalid or blank votes 14,887 1.49% Total votes 997,826 100.00% Registered voters/turnout 2,867,960 34.79%

The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2001 (bill no. 19 of 2001) was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Ireland to allow the state to ratify the Treaty of Nice of the European Union.^[1] The proposal was rejected in a referendum held in June 2001, sometimes referred to as the first Nice referendum.^[1] The referendum was held on the same day as referendums on the prohibition of the death penalty and on the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, both of which were approved.

The Nice Treaty was subsequently approved by Irish voters when the Twenty-sixth Amendment was approved in the second Nice referendum, held in 2002.