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The electoral roll for Seanad general election.
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45.—(1) The Seanad returning officer shall prepare an electoral roll containing the names, addresses and descriptions of the persons constituting the electorate at a Seanad general election.
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(2) The Clerk of Dáil Eireann shall, not later than three days after he has received all the returns to the writs for a Dáil election, send to the Seanad returning officer a statement of the names, addresses and descriptions of the members of Dáil Eireann who are entitled under this Act to be members of the electorate at the ensuing Seanad general election.
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(3) The secretary of the council of a county or town clerk of a county borough shall, not later than fifteen days after a dissolution of Dáil Eireann, send to the Seanad returning officer a statement of the names, addresses and descriptions of the members or former members of the council of the county or county borough who are entitled under this Act to be members of the electorate at the ensuing Seanad general election.
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(4) Where a person is a member of the electorate for a Seanad general election by virtue of more than one qualification, his name shall nevertheless be entered once only in the electoral roll for the election.
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(5) It shall be lawful for the Seanad returning officer to make such inquiries and take such steps as he thinks proper for ascertaining the correct name, address or description of every person whose name is required to be entered in an electoral roll under this section, but no omission of or inaccuracy in the name, address, or description of any person in an electoral roll under this section shall invalidate the roll.
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(6) An electoral roll prepared under this section shall be final and conclusive and not open to review by any court, and the persons whose names are set out in the roll, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote at the Seanad general election to which the roll relates.
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(7) The death of a person whose name is entered in an electoral roll under this section shall not prejudice or affect the validity or operation of the roll, whether such death occurred before or occurs after the preparation of the roll.
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