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Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/RXVI38CK/print.html Home > Acts > 1937 > Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 Number 30 of 1937. SEANAD ELECTORAL (UNIVERSITY MEMBERS) ACT, 1937. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I Preliminary and General Section 1. Short title. 2. Commencement. 3. Definitions. 4. Regulations. 5. Expenses. PART II Constituencies, Franchise and Registration 6. Constituencies and electors. 7. Franchise. 8. Registers of electors. 9. Registration officers and annual revision of registers. 10. Contents of registers of electors. 11. Appeals from the registration officer. PART III Conduct of Elections 1 von 9 09.07.2019, 17:30 Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/RXVI38CK/print.html 12. Appointment of days and times at Seanad general elections. 13. Seanad bye-election orders. 14. Returning officers. 15. Duty of returning officer to conduct elections. 16. Nomination of candidates. 17. Publication of notice of times and places. 18. Receipt of nomination papers by the returning officer. 19. Withdrawal of candidates. 20. Ballot papers. 21. Issue of ballot papers. 22. Method of voting. 23. Ascertainment and declaration of result of election. 24. Preservation of the secrecy of the voting. 25. prevention of electoral abuses. 26. Election petitions in relation to elections in university constituencies. 27. Non-compliance with rules. 28. Free postal services. PART IV Miscellaneous 29. Resignation of membership of Seanad Eireann. 30. Restriction on candidature at Seanad bye-elections. 31. Election for two university constituencies. 32. Election as university member and as panel member. FIRST SCHEDULE SECOND SCHEDULE THIRD SCHEDULE Acts Referred to Electoral Act, 1923 No. 12 of 1923 Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 No. 38 of 1923 Number 30 of 1937. SEANAD ELECTORAL (UNIVERSITY MEMBERS) ACT, 1937. 2 von 9 09.07.2019, 17:30 Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/RXVI38CK/print.html AN ACT TO REGULATE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND LATELY ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE, ELECTIONS (INCLUDING BYE-ELECTIONS AS WELL AS GENERAL ELECTIONS) OF THOSE ELECTED MEMBERS OF SEANAD EIREANN WHO ARE REQUIRED BY THAT CONSTITUTION TO BE ELECTED BY UNIVERSITIES, TO DEFINE THE FRANCHISE ON WHICH SUCH MEMBERS ARE TO BE ELECTED, AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS INCIDENTAL TO OR CONNECTED WITH SUCH ELECTIONS. [19th November, 1937.] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— PART I. Preliminary and General. Short title. 1.—This Act may be cited as the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937. Commencement. 2.—This Act shall come into operation immediately after the coming into operation of the Constitution of Ireland lately enacted by the People. Definitions. 3.—In this Act— the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health; the expression “Seanad general election” means so much of a general election of members of Seanad Eireann held in pursuance of Article 18 of the Constitution as relates to the election of those members who are required by the said Article 18 to be elected by universities; the expression “the first Seanad general election” means the first Seanad general election held after the commencement of this Act; the expression “Seanad bye-election” means an election of a member of Seanad Eireann to fill the place of a member who was elected by a university and has vacated his seat by death, resignation, or disqualification; the expression “Seanad election” includes both a Seanad general election and a Seanad bye- election; the word “election” when used without qualification includes both a general election and a bye- election; the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act. Regulations. 4.—The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed. Expenses. 5.—All expenses incurred by the Minister in the execution of this Act shall, to such extent as shall be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas. PART II. Constituencies, Franchise, and Registration. Constituencies and 6.—(1) At every Seanad election— electors. (a) the National University of Ireland shall be a constituency (in this Act referred to as the National University constituency) for the election of three members of Seanad Eireann, and 3 von 9 09.07.2019, 17:30 Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/RXVI38CK/print.html (b) the University of Dublin shall be a constituency (in this Act referred to as the Dublin University constituency) for the election of three members of Seanad Eireann, and (c) every person who is for the time being registered as an elector in the register of electors for the National University constituency shall be entitled to vote in that constituency, and (d) every person who is for the time being registered as an elector in the register of electors for the Dublin University constituency shall be entitled to vote in that constituency. (2) No person shall be entitled to vote at an election in a university constituency unless he is registered as an elector in the register of electors for that constituency. (3) Nothing in this section shall entitle any person to vote at an election in a university constituency while he is prohibited by law from so voting, nor shall anything in this section relieve any person from any penalties to which he may be liable for so voting. (4) The National University constituency and the Dublin University constituency are in this Act referred to as university constituencies and the expression “university constituency” shall in this Act be construed accordingly. Franchise. 7.—(1) Every person who is a citizen of Ireland and has received a degree (other than an honorary degree) in the National University of Ireland and has attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the register of electors for the National University constituency. (2) Every person who is a citizen of Ireland and has received a degree (other than an honorary degree) in the University of Dublin or has obtained a foundation scholarship in that University or, if a woman, has obtained a non-foundation scholarship in the said University and (in any case) has attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the register of electors for the Dublin University constituency. Registers of electors. 8.—(1) The governing body of every university which is a university constituency shall cause a register (in this Act referred to as a register of electors) to be kept in accordance with this Act of the persons who are for the time being entitled to be registered as electors in such constituency. (2) Every register of electors kept under this Act in respect of a university constituency shall be in such form as the governing body of the university forming such constituency shall, with the sanction of the Minister, direct. (3) The register of electors prepared and kept in pursuance of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), which came into force on the 1st day of June, 1937, for the National University of Ireland constituency established by that Act shall, immediately upon the commencement of this Act, become and be the register of electors for the purposes of this Act of the National University constituency and shall thenceforth be kept in accordance with this Act by the governing body of the National University of Ireland. (4) The register of electors prepared and kept in pursuance of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), which came into force on the 1st day of June, 1937, for the Dublin University constituency established by that Act shall, immediately upon the commencement of this Act, become and be the register of electors for the purposes of this Act of the Dublin University constituency and shall thenceforth be kept in accordance with this Act by the governing body of Dublin University. 4 von 9 09.07.2019, 17:30 Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 file:///C:/Users/palop.GIGA/Zotero/storage/RXVI38CK/print.html (5) No fee shall be charged by the governing body of a university in respect of the registration of any person in the register of electors for the university constituency consisting of such university. Registration officers 9.—(1) There shall be a registration officer for each of the university constituencies who shall be and annual revision appointed and paid by the governing body of the university forming the constituency. of registers. (2) It shall be the duty of every registration officer of a university constituency to revise annually. in accordance with the rules contained in the First Schedule to this Act, the register of electors for such constituency. (3) Every annual revision, in pursuance of this section, of a register of electors shall be completed before and shall come into effect on the 1st day of June and shall be so made as to render such register of electors an accurate register, so far as may be practicable, of the persons who were qualified on the next preceding 15th day of November to be registered in such register of electors. Contents of registers 10.—The register of electors for each university constituency shall contain the names of all persons of electors. who are entitled under this Act to be registered as electors in that constituency, and shall also contain, in respect of every such person, the address at which he is normally resident and also, if he so desires, another address as the address to which his ballot papers are to be sent.