European Assembly Elections Act, 1984
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Replacement candidates' list. |
4.—(1) A replacement candidates' list shall be in the prescribed form and shall be signed by— | |
(a) in case the list contains the names of one or more replacement candidates nominated by a particular registered political party, the officer or, as may be appropriate, the officers of such party whose name or names are entered in the Register of Political Parties either pursuant to section 13 (3) (c) of the Electoral Act, 1963 , or pursuant to that section as applied by section 8 (4) of the Principal Act, | ||
(b) in case the list contains the names of one or more replacement candidates nominated by a person who is a non-party candidate at the election, that person. | ||
(2) As regards a replacement candidates' list the surname of any person nominated by entry thereon as a replacement candidate shall be placed before his other name or names and the list shall also contain his address. | ||
(3) Where a registered political party or a non-party candidate at an Assembly election nominates more than one replacement candidate, the order in which the names of such replacement candidates appear on the relevant replacement candidates' list shall be determined by that party, or, as may be appropriate, that non-party candidate, and in applying any provision of the European Assembly Elections Acts, 1977 and 1984, in relation to the list, the names on the list shall be listed or given in the order in which they have been so determined or, as may be appropriate, regard shall be had to that order. | ||
(4) As may be appropriate, a replacement candidates' list shall be headed by— | ||
(a) where the list is signed by an officer or officers referred to in subsection (1) (a) of this section, the name together with (if the officer or officers by whom the list is signed so wish) the initials or other abbreviation (if any) by which the party concerned is known, or | ||
(b) in case the list is signed by a non-party candidate at the election, the name of that candidate (the surname being stated first). | ||
(5) A replacement candidates' list may, if the Minister so thinks proper, include— | ||
(a) a note of the qualifications, disqualifications and incapacities as regards election to and membership of the Assembly, | ||
(b) a form of declaration, to be signed by— | ||
(i) in case the list is signed by an officer referred to in subsection (1) (a) of this section, the officer or, as may be appropriate, the officers signing the list, | ||
(ii) in case the list is signed by a person who is a non-party candidate at the relevant election, that person, | ||
that he has read the notes and, as regards the replacement candidates nominated by entry on such list, he believes each of them to be eligible for nomination under this Act as a replacement candidate and none of them to stand validly nominated as a replacement candidate as regards any other constituency. | ||
(6) (a) Where a replacement candidates' list is presented to the returning officer, he shall assign to the list one or more letters for the purpose of identifying it and, when such letter or letters is or are so assigned, the replacement candidates' list to which it or they relate may (unless it is withdrawn, deemed under this Act to have been withdrawn or ruled by the returning officer as being invalid) be referred to on any ballot paper, notice or other document by reference to such letter or letters. | ||
(b) An assignment by the returning officer under this subsection shall not form a ground on which an Assembly election may be questioned. |