Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001

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Amendment of Second Schedule to Principal Act.

34.—The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) the substitution of “section 14” for “section 14(d)” in paragraphs 2 and 4 of the Table to paragraph (4) of Rule 1,

(b) the insertion in Rule 5 after paragraph (2) of the following paragraph:

“(2A) The registration authority or local authority referred to in paragraph (2) shall include in any registration form delivered to each house or building for the purposes of this Rule, or in their other enquiries, a question which will enable an elector who completes the form on his own behalf or on behalf of other electors resident in the house or building or responds to the question by a representative of the registration or other authority to state that the elector or other person included on the form to whom the enquiry relates does not wish his name and address to be used for a purpose other than an electoral or other statutory purpose.”,

(c) the substitution in Rule 6(1)(a) of “to the Minister, if requested, and to” for “to the Minister,”,

(d) the substitution in Rule 13(4)(a) of “to the Minister, if requested, and to” for “to the Minister,”,

(e) in Rule 14—

(i) the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraphs (2) and (3):

“(2) The fee for a copy of the register, edited register or draft register or any part thereof shall be fifty pence plus the sum of ten pence for each one hundred by which the number of persons in the register, edited register or draft register or part thereof exceeds one hundred.

(3) The registration authority shall, on payment of the said fee, supply to any person a copy of the register, edited register or draft register or the appropriate part thereof in printed form or in electronic format.”,

and

(ii) in paragraph (4)(bb) (inserted by the Electoral Act, 1997 ) the insertion of “or a body declared to be an approved body under section 7 of the Referendum Act, 1998 ” after “Seanad” where that word secondly occurs,

(f) the insertion of the following Rules after Rule 14:

“PART IA

Edited version of the Register of Electors

14A. (1) Following publication of the register of electors in accordance with Rule 13 of Part 1 of this Schedule, the registration authority shall prepare and publish a version of the register by omitting therefrom the names and addresses of registered electors or electors on whose behalf requests have been made that their details should not be used for a purpose other than an electoral or other statutory purpose.

(2) Where an elector whose details are included in an edited register or edited supplement or edited electors list requests the registration authority to delete the elector's details from the edited register, edited supplement or edited electors list, the registration authority shall note the request and notify any person who received a copy of the edited register, edited supplement or edited electors list of the request.

14B. The registration authority may supply on request to any person a copy of the edited register or edited supplement or of an edited electors list or part of such a register or list in printed form or in electronic format on payment of a fee which fee shall be calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) of Rule 14.”,

and

(g) the deletion in Rule 18(1) of “on or” after “were received”.