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Amendment of section 15A of Principal Act.
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7.—Section 15A of the Principal Act (inserted by section 76 of the Act of 1997) is amended by—
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(a) in subsection (1), the substitution of “any of paragraphs (a) to (d)” for “paragraph (a) or (d)”;
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(b) the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (b) of subsection (2):
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“(c) The provisions of section 12 shall apply to an application for entry in the supplement to the postal voters list under this section from an elector referred to in section 14(c) as if the reference in section 12 to qualifying date were a reference to the latest date for receipt of an application under subsection (4) and as if in subsection (3) of that section ‘, not later than the date specified for that purpose in the Second Schedule,’ were deleted.
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(d) The provisions of Part III (other than Rules 19(c), 21 and 23 (3)) of the Second Schedule shall apply to an application for entry in the supplement to the postal voters list under this section from an elector referred to in section 14(a) or 14(b) as if—
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(i) references in that Part to ‘special voters list’ were references to ‘supplement to the postal voters list’;
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(ii) the reference in that Part to ‘section 17’ were a reference to this section and references in that Part to ‘section 17(2)’ were references to ‘section 14(a) or 14(b)’;
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(iii) in Rule 19(d), ‘and, where appropriate, the certificate referred to in paragraph (c)’ were deleted and ‘to the registration authority’ were substituted for ‘so as to be received by the registration authority not later than the date specified in Rule 1’;
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(iv) in Rule 22, ‘at such times and places as are specified in a notice published pursuant to Rule 21,’ were deleted;
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(v) in Rule 23, subparagraph (c) of paragraphs (1) and (2) were deleted.”;
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(c) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):
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“(4) An application by an elector to have his name entered in the supplement to the postal voters list received by the registration authority on or after the third day after the dissolution of the Dáil at a general election or on or after the third day after the date of the making of the order appointing polling day at a Dáil bye-election, or a Presidential, European or local election, or an election to Údarás na Gaeltachta or a referendum shall not have effect in relation to that election or referendum.”;
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and
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(d) in subsection (5), the insertion of “or an election to Údarás na Gaeltachta” after “local election”.
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