Local Government Act, 1994
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Right to vote at local elections. |
23.—(1) For the purposes of this section and subject to this Part and regulations made thereunder, every person whose name is on the register of local government electors prepared under Part II of the Electoral Act, 1992 (“the register”) for the time being in force for a local electoral area, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote at the poll at a local election in that area. | |
(2) A person's name shall be taken to be on the register if it includes a name which, in the opinion of the returning officer or presiding officer, was intended to be the person's name. | ||
(3) A person who has voted at a local election shall not in any legal proceeding be required to state for whom he or she has voted. | ||
(4) A person— | ||
(a) who is registered in the register for the time being in force for a local electoral area but is not entitled to be so registered, or | ||
(b) who is not registered in the register, | ||
shall not vote at the poll at a local election in that area. | ||
(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed as entitling any person to vote who is not entitled to do so, or as relieving that person from any penalties to which that person may be liable for voting. |