Electoral Act, 1923

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Registration Rules for University Constituencies.

Contents of Register.

1. The register for each University Constituency shall contain the names of all persons who are entitled to be registered as Dáil or Seanad electors in that constituency and shall distinguish the persons who are entitled to be registered as Dáil electors only from those persons who are entitled to be registered as both Dáil and Seanad electors, and such register shall record the addresses of every person whose name is entered thereon.

Forms of Claim to be sent out.

2. (1) For the purposes of the preparation of the first register prepared under this Act the registration officer shall send the prescribed form of claim to each person who appears to him to be entitled to have his name entered on that register.

(2) For the purposes of the preparation of each register after the first register prepared under this Act the registration officer shall send the prescribed form of claim to each person who appears to him to be entitled to have his name entered on that register other than and except:

(a) any person whose name is entered on the register then in force, and is shown to the satisfaction of the registration officer to be ordinarily resident and occupying business premises (if any) at the addresses recorded by such person with the registration officer; and

(b) any person who has elected not to be registered in that constituency.

(3) It shall be the duty of the registration officer to record any change of address communicated to him by any elector whose name appears on the register for the time being in force.

(4) The principal Postmaster in each constituency, other than a University constituency, shall, at the request of the registration officer of a University constituency, ascertain and state to such registration officer whether any elector whose name appears on the register for that University constituency in force on the 15th day of November, is on that day ordinarily resident and occupying business premises (if any) at the addresses recorded by such elector with the registration officer. The statement of a principal Postmaster under this rule shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein but the Postmaster shall not be liable to any person for or on account of any inaccuracy in such statement.

Contents of Form of Claim.

3 The prescribed form of claim to be sent under the preceding rule shall be such as to enable the person filling up same to state therein

(a) such particulars including date of birth as show that such person is qualified to be an elector in that University;

(b) the address where such person was normally resident on the next previous 15th day of November;

(c) whether such person occupied on the next previous 15th day of November any premises for the purpose of his trade, profession or business, and, if so, the address of such premises;

(d) whether such person is qualified to be an elector in any other University Constituency, and, if so, the name of such constituency;

(e) that such person elects to be registered as an elector in that University Constituency.

Names to be entered in Electors Lists.

4. The registration officer shall enter on the electors lists the name of every person who returns the said form of claim to the registration officer on or before the 1st day of January next after the day on which such form of claim was sent to him and states therein all the matters and things mentioned at (a) (b) (c) (d) and (e) in Rule 3 of this Schedule, and shall also enter in the electors lists the name of every person whose name is entered on the register then in force, and is shown to the satisfaction of the registration officer to be ordinarily resident or occupying business premises at the address recorded by such person with the registration officer.

Names not to be entered in Electors Lists.

5. The registration officer shall not enter on the electors lists the name of any person who omits to return the said form of claim before the date mentioned in the preceding rule or who returns the form of claim before such date but omits therefrom any of the matters or statements mentioned at (a) (b) (c) (d) and (e) in Rule 3 of this Schedule.

Addresses to be recorded.

6. The addresses to be recorded on the electors lists and on the register in respect of any person whose name appears in such lists or register shall be:

(a) the address at which such person was ordinarily resident on the next previous 15th day of November; and

(b) the address of the business premises (if any) as defined by Section 1 of this Act, occupied by such person on the next previous 15th day of November. There shall also be recorded in the electors lists and the register, opposite the name of each person thereon, the name of every other University constituency in which he is qualified to be an elector.

Persons Registered elsewhere not to be entered.

7. A person who in any year is qualified to be an elector in a University constituency and is not entered in the register of electors for that constituency because he has not elected to be registered in that constituency shall not be entered in the electors lists or in the register of electors for that University constituency in any subsequent year unless he makes in the prescribed manner a claim to be so registered.

Publication of electors lists.

8. It shall be the duty of the registration officer to publish the electors lists in the prescribed form on or before the 29th day of January.

The registration officer shall at the same time publish a notice specifying the mode in which, and the time within which, claims and objections are to be made under these rules.

Copies of lists and register to be sent to other registration officers.

9. The registration officer shall send to the registration officer of every other registration area in Saorstát Eireann a copy of so much of every electors list and of every register prepared by him as contains the names and addresses of all persons whose recorded addresses are, or either of them is, in such registration area or, in the case of the registration officer of a University constituency, of all persons who are recorded as being qualified to be electors in such constituency.

Application of Rules in First Schedule.

10. Rules 9 to 14, 17 to 22, 24 to 29, 31 to 33, and 35 to 39, all inclusive, of the First Schedule to this Act, so far as they relate to the registration of Dáil or Seanad Electors, shall apply to University constituencies.

Form of Electors Lists and of Register.

11. The electors lists and the register of electors in each University constituency shall be in such form as the registration officer, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, shall think suitable.

Expenses to be paid by Minister for Finance.

12. The expenses of obtaining and printing all forms (other than the register itself) required by the registration officer, and all expenses of postage incurred by the registration officer in complying with the rules contained or incorporated in this Schedule shall be paid by the Minister for Finance.

Publication of documents.

13. Where by the rules contained or incorporated in this Schedule the registration officer is required to publish any document, and no specific provision is made as to the mode of publication, the registration officer shall publish such document by making copies of the document available for inspection in his office during ordinary office hours and posting a notice in some conspicuous place on the outside of his office stating the times at which such document may be inspected in his office.

Preparation of First Register.

14. For the purpose of the preparation of the First Register prepared under this Act the registration officer shall, as soon as possible after the passing of this Act, send a form of claim such as is mentioned in Rule 3 of this Schedule to every person whose name appears on the register of electors in force for the constituency at the date of the passing of this Act, and also to every other person who appears from the records of the University forming the constituency to be qualified to be an elector in the constituency. The registration officer shall then prepare the register in the manner prescribed in the foregoing rules, save that the several dates prescribed by these rules as the dates before, at or after which the several acts, matters and things required by these rules to be done or not done by the registration officer or any other person are respectively to be done or not done shall not apply to the First Register prepared under this Act, or to the several acts, matters and things to be done or not done in the preparation thereof, and in lieu of such dates the Minister for Local Government shall by order appoint the respective dates before, at, or after which the several acts, matters and things aforesaid shall respectively be done or not done in respect of the First Register prepared under this Act and of the preparation of that register