Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1954

Amendment of section 18 of Principal Act.

6.—Section 18 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following subsection:

“(6) The decision of the appeal board on any appeal considered in pursuance of this section shall comprise—

(a) if the decision reverses a decision disallowing an application by a body for registration, a direction to the Seanad returning officer for deletion from the register of any other specified registration which appears to the appeal board to be a registration of a body which is a branch of or affiliated or subsidiary to the first-mentioned body, and

(b) if the decision reverses a decision allowing an application by a body for registration, a direction for registration of any other specified body as respects which, on the current annual revision, a deletion of the registration thereof has come into force or a disallowance of an application for registration thereof has been made, such deletion or disallowance having been solely on the ground that the body was a branch of or affiliated or subsidiary to the first-mentioned body.”