Electoral Reform Act 2022

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PART 3

Franchise and registration of electors

Chapter 1

Amendments to Act of 1992

Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1992

79. Section 6 of the Act of 1992 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following definitions:

“‘anonymous elector’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 15E(1);

‘closing date’ shall be construed in accordance with Rule 1(2) of Part I of the Second Schedule;

‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016⁴ on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation);

‘Designated Registration Authority’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 13B(1);

‘registered medical practitioner’ means a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of section 2 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 ;

‘pending elector list’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 17A;

‘personal public service number’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 262 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 ;

‘shared database’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 13B;”,

(b) by—

(i) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “the county registrar”:

“‘county registrar’ means a person appointed to be a county registrar under section 35 of the Court Officers Act 1926 including any deputy for a county registrar for the time appointed under section 40 of that Act or a person who, under section 9 (1)(b) of the Court Officers Act 1945 , is required and authorised to perform any of the duties of any other county registrar, and who carries out the functions conferred on him or her by this Part in respect of the administrative area of a particular county council, a city council or a city and county council or other area coterminous with or contained in a registration area or a person appointed or designated under Rule 24 of Part IV of the Second Schedule;”,

(ii) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “local authority”:

“‘local authority’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Local Government Act 2001 ;”,

(iii) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “the register”:

“‘the register’ means the register of presidential electors or the register of Dáil electors or the register of European electors or the register of local government electors or all such registers as the case may require and, where the context so requires, includes the postal voters list and the special voters list;”,

(iv) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “registration area”:

“‘registration area’ means the administrative area (within the meaning of section 2 of the Local Government Act 2001 ) of a county council, a city council or a city and county council;”,

(v) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “registration authority”:

“‘registration authority’ means a county council, a city council or a city and county council;”,

and

(c) by the deletion of the following definitions:

(i) “edited register”;

(ii) “national edited register”;

(iii) “medical practitioner”;

(iv) “national register”;

(v) “qualifying date”;

(vi) “the specified date”.

⁴ OJ No. L. 119, 4.5.2016, p.1