Referendum Act, 1998

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Amendment of Act of 1994.

15.—The Act of 1994 is hereby amended by—

(a) in section 2 (3), the substitution for paragraphs (f), (g), (h), (m) and (v) of the following paragraphs:

“(f) the reference in section 67 of the said Act to section 60 thereof was a reference to section 26 and to section 11 of the Referendum Act, 1998, and ‘of the candidates’ was deleted,

(g) the references in section 68 of the said Act to each candidate were references to each member of the Dáil for the constituency and each member of the Seanad resident in the constituency concerned and each approved body within the meaning of the Refererendum Act, 1998 and ‘if the election is contested’ was deleted,

(h) the references in section 73 of the said Act to each candidate were references to each member of the Dáil for the constituency and each member of the Seanad resident in the constituency concerned and each approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998,

(m) in section 95 of the said Act ‘a member of the Dáil for the constituency and any member of the Seanad and a person authorised in writing by the authorised officer of an approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998’ was substituted for ‘a person in respect of whom he is satisfied that that person has a bona fide interest in the Dáil election as either a candidate or a prospective candidate, or the agent of such a person’,

(v) in section 113 of the said Act the references to ‘each candidate’ were references to each member of the Dáil for the constituency and each member of the Seanad resident in the constituency and each approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998 and ‘of the candidates’ in subsections (2) and (3) was deleted,”,

(b) in section 27(1), the insertion after “at that referendum” of “or for an approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998”, and

(c) in section 28—

(i) in subsection (4), the insertion after “resident in the constituency” of “and to each approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998”, and

(ii) in subsection (5), the substitution for “any member of the Seanad” of “any such member of the Seanad and a reference to an agent appointed by an approved body within the meaning of the Referendum Act, 1998.”.