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Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.
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5.—(1) Section 17 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection (1) after paragraph (a) of the following paragraph:
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“(aa) inform every body which is authorised by paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section to appeal against the allowance of an application for registration of his decision to allow such application, and”.
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(2) Section 17 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:
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“(b) in the case of an allowance of an application by a body for registration in respect of any particular panel, any body which applied at the annual revision for registration in respect of the same panel and any nominating body which is registered in respect of the same panel,”
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(3) Section 17 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (4) of the following subsections:
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“(4a) In the case of an appeal referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section—
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(i) the appellant shall send a copy of the appeal by registered post to every body which appears to the Seanad returning officer to be a branch of or affiliated or subsidiary to it and which either is registered in the register of nominating bodies or has applied at the annual revision for registration therein and shall attach the certificate or certificates of posting to the appeal before it is delivered or sent by post to the Clerk of Dáil Éireann,
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(ii) any body to which a copy of the appeal is required by the foregoing paragraph to be sent may submit comments on the grounds of the appeal and such comments shall be made in writing and shall be delivered to or sent by post so as to reach the Clerk of Dáil Éireann not later than twelve o'clock noon on the 22nd day (being a week-day) or the 21st day (being a Saturday) of March in the year in which the decision appealed against was given, and any such comments which are received by the Clerk of Dáil Éireann after that hour on that day shall not be entertained or considered by the appeal board,
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and to facilitate compliance with this subsection, the Seanad returning officer shall, on the request of a body proposing to appeal against the disallowance of an application, furnish the body with a statement specifying every body which appears to him to be a branch of or affiliated or subsidiary to the body proposing to appeal and which is registered in the register of nominating bodies or has applied at the annual revision for registration therein.
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(4b) In the case of an appeal referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section—
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(i) the appellant shall send a copy of the appeal by registered post to the respondent, and shall attach the certificate of posting to the appeal before it is delivered or sent by post to the Clerk of Dáil Éireann,
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(ii) the respondent may submit comments on the grounds of the appeal and such comments shall be made in writing and shall be delivered to or sent by post so as to reach the Clerk of Dáil Éireann not later than twelve o'clock noon on the 22nd day (being a week-day) or the 21st day (being a Saturday) of March in the year in which the decision appealed against was given, and any such comments which are received by the Clerk of Dáil Éireann after that hour on that day shall not be entertained or considered by the appeal board.”
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