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Certificate of provisional election.
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63.—(1) If, at the expiration of one hour from the commencement of the proceedings at a nomination committee (bye-election) meeting, one person and no more has been duly nominated, the Seanad returning officer shall make and sign a certificate (in this Act referred to as a certificate of provisional election) in the prescribed form stating the name, address and description of such person.
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(2) If a nomination committee (bye-election) meeting is adjourned for the purpose of taking a poll, the Seanad returning officer, shall when the counting of the votes at the poll has been completed, make and sign a certificate (in this Act also referred to as a certificate of provisional election) in the prescribed form stating the name, address and description of the person selected at the poll.
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(3) The Seanad returning officer shall publish in the Iris Oifigiúil every certificate of provisional election made and signed by him in pursuance of this section and shall at the same time publish in the Iris Oifigiúil a notice stating the day and place appointed by the relevant Seanad bye-election order for the ruling upon nomination.
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(4) A certificate of provisional election made, signed and published in pursuance of this section shall be conclusive evidence that the person named in the certificate was duly nominated at the nomination (bye-election) meeting to which it relates and either (as the case may be) that he was the only person so nominated or, if such meeting was adjourned for the purpose of taking a poll, that the poll was duly and properly taken and that such person was selected at the poll.
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(5) The Seanad returning officer shall, during the period beginning on the day after the completion of a certificate of provisional election under subsection (2) of this section and ending on the day before the day of the ruling upon nomination, hold the nomination papers which he accepted available for inspection by candidates between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on weekdays.
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