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Announcement of names of candidates duly nominated.
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7.—(1) At one o'clock in the afternoon on the last day for receiving nominations at a Seanad bye-election the Seanad returning officer shall announce the names of the candidates who have been duly and validly nominated and, if the number of such candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled at such bye-election, shall declare such candidates to have been duly elected at such bye-election and shall certify in writing such election to the Clerk of the Dáil and also to the Clerk of the Seanad
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(3) Whenever the number of candidates duly and validly nominated at a Seanad bye-election exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled at such bye-election, the Seanad returning officer shall as soon as may be after one o'clock in the afternoon on the last day for receiving nominations prepare a list of the candidates so nominated and shall arrange such candidates in such list in the alphabetical order of their surnames and, in the case of candidates having the same surname, the alphabetical order of their other names, and shall state in such list the address and description of each such candidate and his qualifications for membership of Seanad Eireann under Article 30 of the Constitution and the names of his proposer and seconder, and shall send to the Clerk of the Dáil and to the Clerk of the Seanad a copy of such list, and the said Clerks shall respectively communicate to the members of Dáil Eireann and to the members of Seanad Eireann the contents of such list but a failure to communicate or an inaccuracy in the communication of such contents to such members by such Clerks shall not invalidate the nomination of any such candidate nor the said bye-election.
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