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Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.
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6.—Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by—
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(a) the insertion in subsection (1) after “publish.” of “The registration authority is also empowered to prepare and publish a version of the supplement, which shall be known and is in this Act referred to as an ‘edited supplement’, by omitting from the supplement the names and addresses of registered electors or electors on whose behalf requests have been made that their details not be used for a purpose other than an electoral or other statutory purpose. Such a supplement shall be deemed to form part of the edited register prepared and published under section 13A.”;
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(b) in subsection (1A)(a) (inserted by section 76 of the Act of 1997)—
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(i) the insertion of “or” after “electors,” in subparagraph (ii);
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(ii) the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (ii):
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“(iii) is registered as an elector in a constituency or in a local electoral area and takes up ordinary residence in another constituency or in another local electoral area on a date following the coming into force of the register of electors then in force provided the person authorises in writing, in a form directed by the Minister, the registration authority in whose register of electors he is registered as an elector to delete his name from that register of electors. The authorisation shall include such information as is necessary to enable the authority for the area of original registration to identify the relevant entry in that register,”;
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(iii) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c) of subsection (1A) (inserted by section 76 of the Act of 1997):
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“(c) A person referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) shall be eligible for entry in the supplement to the register on or after the day on which that person reaches eighteen years of age, including such a day that falls within the period beginning on the last day on which applications for entry in the supplement can be received and ending on polling day in the case of a Dáil, Presidential, European, local or Údarás na Gaeltachta election, or a referendum.”;
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(iv) the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (c):
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“(d) The registration authority on receipt of an authorisation referred to in subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) and being satisfied that the person is no longer ordinarily resident in respect of the address for which he is registered as an elector shall—
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(i) in the case the new address is in another registration area, delete his name from the register of electors for the authority's registration area and forward forthwith the relevant form to the registration authority for the address indicated on the form at which he is ordinarily resident,
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(ii) in the case the new address is in another local electoral area within the registration area of the registration authority, delete the elector's name from the register of electors and enter his details in the supplement of the register prepared under this section.”;
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(c) the insertion in subsection (2)(a) of “or (1A)” after “subsection (1)”; and
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(d) the insertion in subsection (5) of “(including an election to Údarás na Gaeltachta)” after “election” where that word secondly occurs.
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