Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937

Nomination of candidates.

16.—(1) Every candidate at an election in a university constituency shall be nominated in writing on a nomination paper subscribed by two registered electors of the constituency as proposer and seconder respectively and by eight other registered electors of the constituency as assenting to the nomination.

(2) No person who is for the time being disqualified from or incapable of being elected as a member of Dáil Eireann shall be a candidate at an election in a university constituency.

(3) An elector may subscribe (whether as proposer, seconder, or assenting elector) as many nomination papers as there are vacancies to be filled and no more.

(4) Every candidate shall be described in the nomination paper by his name, address, and description in such manner as, in the opinion of the returning officer, is calculated sufficiently to identify such candidate.

(5) Every nomination paper shall be in the prescribed form, and the returning officer shall supply to any registered elector of the constituency such number of forms of nomination paper as he shall reasonably require.