Presidential Elections Act, 1993
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Application of rules in Third Schedule to Act of 1992. |
58.—The provisions of the Third Schedule to the Act of 1992, other than Rules 2(2), 3, 4(1)(c), 6(2)(a), 7(3)(c), 12, 13 and 14, shall apply and have effect in relation to a petition subject to the modifications referred to in section 3 (3) and as if— | |
(a) each reference to section 132 of that Act was a reference to section 57 ; | ||
(b) the references in Rules 4(1)(a), 6(2)(d), 7 and 17 thereof to the returning officer were references both to the presidential returning officer and any local returning officer concerned; | ||
(c) the words “his resignation as a member of the Dáil or his otherwise ceasing to be such member” in Rule 6(2)(b) thereof and “in the constituency to which the petition relates” in Rule 7(1)(a) and “or the cesser of membership of the Dáil” in Rule 8(2)(b) thereof were deleted; | ||
(d) the reference in Rule 7(2) thereof to Part XIX of that Act was a reference to Part IV ; | ||
(e) the reference in Rule 7(3)(a) thereof to section 118(2) of that Act was a reference to section 48 ; | ||
(f) the reference in Rule 7(5) thereof to section 32 of that Act was a reference to sections 9 and 11 ; | ||
(g) the references in Rules 8(3) and 11(3) thereof to a person and the reference in Rule 9(1) thereof to a person who under section 132 of that Act would be eligible to present a petition were references to a person referred to in section 57 (6); | ||
(h) in Rule 8(3) thereof “throughout the State” was substituted for “in the constituency to which the petition relates”; | ||
(i) the reference in Rule 11(3) thereof to fourteen days was a reference to three days; | ||
and with any other necessary modifications. |