Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001
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Amendment of section 14A of Principal Act. |
5.—Section 14A of the Principal Act (inserted by the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1996 ) is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2)— | |
“(3) Part III (other than Rule 19(c)) of the Second Schedule shall apply to an application for entry in the postal voters list pursuant to section 14(a) as if— | ||
(a) references in that Part to ‘special voters list’ were references to ‘postal voters list’, | ||
(b) references to ‘section 17’ and ‘section 17(2)’ were references to ‘section 14(a)’, | ||
(c) in Rule 19(d), ‘and, where appropriate, the certificate referred to in paragraph (c)’ were deleted, and | ||
(d) in Rule 23, paragraphs (1)(c) and (2)(c) were deleted. | ||
(4) In case an application for entry in the postal voters list pursuant to section 14(a), (c) or (d) is refused, Rules 16 and 17 of Part II of the Second Schedule shall apply to such a refusal as if the reference in Rule 16 to the ‘supplement to the register’ were a reference to ‘postal voters list under section 14(a), (c) or (d)’.”. |