Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001

Amendment of section 15B of Principal Act.

8.—Section 15B of the Principal Act (inserted by section 76 of the Act of 1997) is amended by—

(a) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):

“(4) An application by an elector to have his name entered in the supplement to the special voters list received by the registration authority on or after the third day after the date of the dissolution of the Dáil at a general election or on or after the third day after the date 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.”;

and

(b) in subsection (5), the insertion of “or an election to Údarás na Gaeltachta” after “local election”.