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Article 15
 

(1) A person who, on the qualifying date in respect of a register of electors, was entitled to be registered as an elector, but was not so registered in that register, may apply to the registration authority to have his name entered in a supplement to the register which the registration authority is hereby empowered to prepare and publish. 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.


(1A) (a) Notwithstanding subsection (1), sections 7(1), 8(1), 9 and 10, and Rule 1(3) of the Second Schedule and subject to section 11(1)(a) and paragraph (c), a person who—


(i) was not ordinarily resident in a constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, on the qualifying date for a register of electors and takes up ordinary residence in such constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, after such qualifying date and is otherwise entitled to be registered as an elector under section 7, 8, 9 or 10,
(ii) reaches the age of 18 years after the date of the coming into force of a register of electors,
(iii) is registered as an elector in a constituency or local electoral area and takes up ordinary residence in another constituency or local electoral area on a date following the coming into force of the register of electors then in force, where—


(I) the person authorises in writing, in a form directed by the Minister, the registration authority in whose register of electors he or she is registered as an elector to delete his or her name from that register of electors, and
(II) the authorisation contains such information as is necessary to enable that registration authority to identify the relevant entry in that register,
or


(iv) was not a citizen of Ireland on the qualifying date for a register of electors and becomes a citizen of Ireland after such qualifying date and is otherwise entitled to be registered as an elector under section 7, 8(1) or 9, may apply to the registration authority to have his or her name entered in the supplement to the register.


(b) An applicant for entry in the supplement referred to in paragraph (a)(i) shall satisfy the registration authority that he or she has taken up ordinary residence in the constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, in respect of which the application applies and, in considering an application from such person, the registration authority may require the applicant to furnish a statutory declaration that he or she has taken up ordinary residence in the constituency or local electoral area concerned.
(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 18 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 or local election or a referendum.
(d) The registration authority on receipt of an authorisation referred to in paragraph (a)(iii) and being satisfied that the person is no longer ordinarily resident in respect of the address for which he or she is registered as an elector shall—


(i) where the new address is in another registration area, delete his or her name from the register of electors for the authority’s registration area and forward immediately the form referred to in paragraph (a)(iii)(I) to the registration authority for the address indicated on the form at which he or she is ordinarily resident,
(ii) where 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 or her details in the supplement to the register prepared under this section.


(e) The registration authority, on receipt of an application, in a form directed by the Minister, from a person referred to in paragraph (a)(iv) who is already registered as a local or European elector, or as a Dáil elector with reference to section 8(2), shall delete the name of that person from the register of electors and, being satisfied that the person is a citizen of Ireland, shall enter that person’s details accordingly in the supplement to the register prepared under this section.


(2) The provisions of Part II of the Second Schedule shall apply to the procedure for making applications under subsection (1) and —


(a) consideration of applications under subsection (1) or (1A) by the registration authority and the ruling on such applications by the registration authority,
(b) the ruling on an appeal against the decision of the registration authority, and
(c) the preparation and publication by the registration authority of a supplement to the register of electors.


(3) The registration authority shall, within the period after the publication of the register of electors specified for that purpose in the Second Schedule, ascertain if any corrections in the register are necessary because of errors of a clerical or typographical nature or because of misnomers or inaccurate descriptions and, if any such corrections are ascertained to be necessary, the registration authority shall publish a list of them and such list shall be deemed to form part of the register of electors and may form part of any supplement prepared pursuant to subsection (1).


(4) A supplement to the register of electors published by the registration authority under subsection (1) shall be deemed to form part of the register of electors.

(5) An application by a person to have his name entered in the supplement to the register, received by the registration authority on or after the fourteenth day (disregarding any excluded day) before polling day at an election or referendum shall not have effect in relation to that election (including an election to Údáras na Gaeltachta) or referendum.