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Claim to be registered in first register of electors
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12. (1) Any person who claims to be entitled to be registered as an elector in the Higher Education constituency may, on or before the 23rd day of January 2025, send to the chief registration officer a claim in the prescribed form to be so registered.
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(2) Where a person referred to in subsection (1) so consents, the designated institution that awarded a degree to the person may send to the chief registration officer on behalf of that person, a claim, in the prescribed form to be registered as an elector in the Higher Education constituency.
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(3) A designated institution shall send all claims referred to in subsection (2) to the chief registration officer as soon as practicable and no later than the 23rd day of January 2025 for inclusion in the first register of electors.
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(4) The prescribed form of claim shall be such as to enable the claimant to state therein—
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(a) such particulars (including a person’s identifying particulars and qualifying particulars) as shall be requisite to show that he or she is entitled to be registered as an elector in the Higher Education constituency,
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(b) the address at which he or she is normally resident,
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(c) if he or she so desires, another address as the address to which his or her ballot papers are to be sent, and
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(d) if he or she so wishes, an address at which he or she may be contacted electronically.
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(5) The prescribed form of claim shall include a declaration to be made by the person filling up the form confirming that the details provided by him or her are true to the best of his or her knowledge and belief.
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(6) The prescribed form of claim shall be such as to enable the claimant, where he or she does not provide a personal public service number, to fill up the form in the presence of a member of the Garda Síochána or any notary or notary public and for the member or, as the case may be, the notary or notary public on being satisfied as to the claimant’s identity, including, if necessary, by proof of photographic identification or by completing a statutory declaration, to date, sign and stamp the form.
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(7) The prescribed form of claim shall be such as to enable the claimant, where he or she does not provide a personal public service number and is unable, due to illness or disability, to attend a Garda station, notary or notary public, to have the form endorsed to that effect by a registered medical practitioner and for the medical practitioner to confirm the identity of the claimant.
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(8) A claim in the prescribed form may be sent to the chief registration officer in writing by post or in electronic form or uploaded electronically to such website as the chief registration officer specifies for that purpose.
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