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Ex-officio nominations to the administrative panel.
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26.—(1) At every Seanad election—
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(a) the Taoiseach shall be entitled to nominate to the administrative panel such number of persons, not exceeding two, as he shall think fit, and
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(b) any person (other than the Taoiseach for the time being) who has previously held the office of Taoiseach or the office of President of the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann or both of those offices shall be entitled to nominate to the administrative panel such number of persons, not exceeding two, as he shall think fit.
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(2) Every nomination made under this section shall be made in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say:—
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(a) such nomination shall be made in writing on a nomination paper in the prescribed form;
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(b) any person who nominates two persons under this section shall nominate both such persons by one and the same nomination paper;
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(c) every nomination paper shall contain the particulars required by the prescribed form of nomination paper to be stated therein (including a statement of the qualifications of every person thereby nominated for the panel to which he is so nominated) and shall be signed by the person making a nomination thereby;
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(d) the nomination paper shall be delivered or sent by post to the Seanad returning officer.
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(3) Where a person purports to nominate by a nomination paper under this section more than two persons, such nomination paper shall be wholly void.
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(4) Immediately after the expiration of the time for ex-officio nominations, the Seanad returning officer shall insert in the provisional panel relating to the administrative panel the names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons (if any) who have been nominated under this section to that panel before the expiration of the said time.
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(5) At any time after the expiration of the time for Dáil panel nominations and before the expiration of the time for ex-officio nominations, any person entitled to make a nomination under this section to the administrative panel shall be entitled to inspect all or any of the provisional panels.
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(6) Nominations under this section to the administrative panel are in this Act referred to as ex-officio nominations.
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