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Seanad bye-election order.
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56.—(1) Where the Minister receives from the Clerk of Seanad Eireann a notice of a casual vacancy, the Minister shall, as soon as conveniently may be and in any case not more than one hundred and eighty days after receiving the notice, make an order (in this Act referred to as a Seanad bye-election order) directing an election to be held in accordance with this Part of this Act to fill the vacancy and stating the panel and sub-panel in respect of which the vacancy occurred and appointing for the purposes of the election the times and places mentioned in whichever of the two next following subsections of this section is applicable.
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(2) Where the vacancy in respect of which a Seanad bye-election order is made is a nominating bodies sub-panel vacancy, the order shall appoint—
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(a) the day on which and the place and hour at which the nomination committee (bye-election) meeting will be held,
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(b) the day on which and the place at which the Seanad returning officer will sit for the ruling upon nomination, 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 Seanad bye-election order is made is an Oireachtas sub-panel vacancy, the 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 nomination, 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 (in this Act referred to as the close of the poll) on and at which the poll will be closed, and
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(e) the address of the Seanad returning officer.
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(4) A Seanad bye-election order shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil as soon as may be after it is made.
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