Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Act 2024

Register of electors

9. (1) The central registration authority shall cause a register (in this Act referred to as a register of electors) to be kept in accordance with this Act of the persons who are for the time being entitled to be registered as electors in the Higher Education constituency.

(2) No fee shall be charged by the central registration authority or by the chief registration officer to any person in respect of the registration of that person in the register of electors.

(3) The first register of electors shall be published and come into effect on the 1st day of April 2025 and shall be prepared so as to render such register of electors an accurate register, so far as may be practicable, of the persons who were qualified on the 23rd day of January 2025.

(4) Every annual revision of the register of electors in accordance with the Schedule shall be completed before and come into effect on the 1st day of June and shall be so made as to render such register of electors an accurate register, so far as may be practicable, of the persons who were qualified on the next preceding 26th day of February to be registered in the register of electors.