Seanad Bye-Elections Act, 1930

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Delivery of nomination papers.

5.—(1) Every nomination paper nominating a candidate at a Seanad bye-election shall be delivered by such candidate or his proposer or seconder to the Seanad returning officer in person either at any time after the making of the bye-election order and before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the last day for receiving nominations or after ten o'clock in the forenoon and before twelve o'clock noon on the last day for receiving nominations.

(2) A nomination paper delivered to the Seanad returning officer before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the last day for receiving nominations may be delivered to him at any place at which he may be found, and a nomination paper delivered to the Seanad returning officer after ten o'clock in the forenoon and before twelve o'clock noon on the last day for receiving nominations shall be delivered to him at the place at which he attends in pursuance of this Act between those hours to receive nomination papers.

(3) Every nomination paper duly delivered to the Seanad returning officer before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the last day for receiving nominations shall be retained by him until the said day and hour.

(4) Whenever a nomination paper is duly delivered to the Seanad returning officer at a time permitted by this Act but before four o'clock in the afternoon on the day before the last day for receiving nominations, the Seanad returning officer shall forthwith communicate in writing to the Clerk of the Dáil and to the Clerk of the Seanad the fact of such nomination paper having been so delivered and the name, description, address, and qualifications as stated in such nomination paper of the candidate thereby proposed and the names as stated in such nomination paper of the proposer and seconder of such candidate, and the said Clerks shall respectively communicate to the members of Dáil Eireann and to the members of Seanad Eireann the information so communicated to them by the Seanad returning officer but a failure to communicate or an inaccuracy in the communication of such information to such members by such Clerks shall not invalidate the nomination nor the bye-election.