Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1937

Nominations by the Taoiseach to complete the sub-panels.

29.—(1) If, when the provisions of the next preceding section have been complied with, the number of persons whose names are entered in any sub-panel of a provisional panel does not exceed by at least two the number of members of Seanad Eireann required by this Act to be elected from such sub-panel, the Seanad returning officer shall adjourn to a convenient day and hour the further proceedings at the completion of the panels and shall report to the Taoiseach the said deficiency in the said sub-panel and furnish to the Taoiseach a copy of the provisional panels as settled immediately before the said adjournment.

(2) Upon receiving such report as is mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section, the Taoiseach shall nominate to every sub-panel in respect of which he receives such report such number of persons as will be sufficient to bring the number of persons on such sub-panel up to a number exceeding by two (and no more) the number of members of Seanad Eireann required by this Act to be elected from such sub-panel.

(3) Whenever the Taoiseach is required by the next preceding sub-section of this section to make nominations to a sub-panel, it shall be lawful for him to make additional nominations to such sub-panel in excess of the number of nominations required by the said sub-section, but such additional nominations shall be substitutional only and shall be operative only if and so far as is requisite by reason of the invalidity of one or more of the other nominations made by the Taoiseach under this section to such sub-panel.

(4) Every nomination made by the Taoiseach under this section shall be made in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say:—

(a) such nomination shall be made in writing on a nomination paper in the form (modified as requisite) prescribed for ex-officio nominations;

(b) every such nomination shall be made by a separate nomination paper;

(c) every nomination paper shall state the sub-panel in respect of which the nomination is made and shall also contain the particulars required by the said prescribed form of nomination paper to be stated therein (including a statement of the qualifications of the person thereby nominated for the panel to which he is so nominated) and shall be signed by the Taoiseach;

(d) every nomination paper shall be delivered or sent to the Seanad returning officer and shall be so sent or delivered that it is received by the Seanad returning officer before the time to which the completion of the panels was adjourned under the first sub-section of this section.

(5) On the resumption of the completion of the panels after the adjournment thereof under the first sub-section of this section, the Seanad returning officer shall consider and rule upon the nominations made by the Taoiseach under this section (including examining and ruling upon the qualifications of every person so nominated for the panel to which he is so nominated) and shall enter in the proper place in the proper provisional panel the name, address, and description of every person whom he finds to be validly so nominated together with a statement, in such form as he thinks proper, of the qualifications which he determines to be in fact the qualifications of such person to be on such panel.