Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) (Bye-Elections) Act, 1940

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The certificate of nominations.

15.—(1) If, at the expiration of one hour from the commencement of a nominating meeting, three persons and no more have been duly nominated, the Seanad returning officer shall make and sign a certificate (in this Act referred to as a certificate of nominations) in the prescribed form stating the names, addresses, and descriptions of the said three persons in the alphabetical order of their surnames and, in case of identity of surname, of their other names.

(2) If a nominating meeting is adjourned for the purpose of taking a poll, the Seanad returning officer shall, when the counting of the votes given at such poll has been completed, make and sign a certificate (in this Act also referred to as a certificate of nominations) in the prescribed form stating the names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons who were nominated at the said meeting and showing the order, as ascertained at the said poll in which they are to be deemed to have been so nominated.

(3) The Seanad returning officer shall publish in the Iris Oifigiúil every certificate of nominations 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 bye-election order for the ruling upon nominations.

(4) A certificate of nominations made, signed and published in pursuance of this section shall be conclusive evidence of the nominations made at the nominating meeting to which such certificate relates and, if such meeting was adjourned for the purpose of taking a poll, such certificate shall also be conclusive evidence that such poll was duly and properly taken and conclusive evidence of the result of such poll.