Referendum commission to oversee blasphemy poll announced

Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy to act as chairwoman ahead of October vote

Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy has been nominated as chairwoman of the Referendum Commission  set up to oversee the upcoming referendum on proposals aimed at removing a constitutional provision which outlaws blasphemy. File photograph: Alan Betson

Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy has been nominated as chairwoman of the Referendum Commission set up to oversee the upcoming referendum on proposals aimed at removing a constitutional provision which outlaws blasphemy. File photograph: Alan Betson

A referendum commission has been set up to oversee the upcoming referendum on proposals aimed at removing a constitutional provision which outlaws blasphemy.

The clause in the constitution which will be deleted in the event of a Yes vote reads: “The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.”

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