Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) (Bye-Elections) Act, 1940

Method of taking the poll.

23.—Every poll taken at an election under this Part of this Act shall be taken in the like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, as a poll at an election under the Principal Act, and for that purpose sections 40 to 43 and sections 45 to 49 of the Principal Act and the First and Second Schedules to that Act shall apply and have effect in relation to every election held under this Part of this Act at which a poll is taken, but with and subject to the modifications that the expression “Seanad election” wherever it occurs in any of the said sections or Schedules shall mean an election under this Part of this Act and that sub-section (1) of the said section 45 shall be construed and have effect as requiring the Seanad returning officer, at the time and in the manner mentioned in that sub-section, to ascertain the result of the election and to declare to be elected the candidate who is so ascertained to be elected.