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Bye-election orders.
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6.—(1) Whenever the Minister receives from the Clerk of Seanad Eireann a notice of a vacancy, the Minister shall, as soon as conveniently may be and in any case not more than one hundred and eighty days after receiving such notice, make an order (in this Act referred to as a bye-election order) directing an election to be held in accordance with this Act to fill such vacancy and stating the panel and sub-panel in respect of which such vacancy occurred and appointing for the purposes of such election the times and places mentioned in whichever of the two next following sub-sections of this section is applicable.
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(2) Where the vacancy in respect of which a bye-election order is made is a nominating bodies sub-panel vacancy, the bye-election order shall appoint—
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(a) the place at which the nominating meeting will be held and the time at which it will commence, and
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(b) the day on which and the place at which the Seanad returning officer will sit for the ruling upon nominations, and
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(c) the address of the Seanad returning officer.
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(3) Where the vacancy in respect of which a bye-election order is made is a Dáil sub-panel vacancy, the bye-election order shall appoint—
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(a) the day which will be the last day for receiving nominations, and
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(b) the day on which and the place at which the Seanad returning officer will sit for the ruling upon nominations, and
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(c) the day which will be the day of issue of ballot papers, and
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(d) the day and hour of the close of the poll, and
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(e) the address of the Seanad returning officer.
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(4) Every bye-election order shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil as soon as may be after it is made.
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