Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1946
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Polling cards. |
4.—(1) Whenever a Dáil election in any constituency is adjourned for the purpose of taking a poll, the returning officer for such constituency shall send by post in accordance with this section to every elector whose name is on the register of Dáil electors for such constituency and is not on the postal voters' list for such constituency a card (in this section referred to as a polling card) in the prescribed form informing such elector of his number (including polling district letter) on such register and of the situation of the polling place in which such elector will be entitled to vote at such election. | |
(2) Every polling card sent under this section to an elector in any constituency shall be addressed to such elector by the name and at the address by and in respect of which he is registered in the register of Dáil electors for that constituency and shall be sent at such time that it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post at that address not later than the third day before the polling day at the election to which it relates. | ||
(3) Every polling card shall be delivered by the returning officer to the nearest Head Post Office or such other post office as may be arranged with the Head Postmaster and shall immediately be forwarded without payment of cost by the Head Postmaster or the postmaster of such other post office (as the case may be) for delivery to the person to whom it is addressed. | ||
(4) The expenses incurred by a returning officer in complying with this section at an election shall be expenses incurred by him for the purposes of such election within the meaning of section 25 of the Principal Act, and that section shall apply and have effect accordingly. | ||
(5) No election shall be invalidated by reason of the failure of the returning officer to send a polling card in accordance with this section to any elector or by reason of the non-delivery of a polling card to any elector or of any error or mis-statement in any polling card sent in pursuance of this section, nor shall any election be questioned on the ground of any such failure, non-delivery, error, or mis-statement. | ||
(6) No action or other proceeding shall lie or be brought against a returning officer in respect of any error or mis-statement in any polling card so sent by him. |