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(1) For the purpose of preparing the register, each registration authority shall make a house to house or other sufficient inquiry in their registration area, exclusive of boroughs and urban districts therein.


(2) The corporation of each borough which is not a county borough and the council of each urban district in a registration area shall make a house to house or other sufficient inquiry in the borough or urban district and, from the information so obtained, compile and furnish to the registration authority on or before the specified date in each year lists in the form of a draft register for the borough or urban district.
Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001, Section 34(b)


(2A) The registration authority or local authority referred to in paragraph (2) shall include in any registration form delivered to each house or building for the purposes of this Rule, or in their other enquiries, a question which will enable an elector who completes the form on his own behalf or on behalf of other electors resident in the house or building or responds to the question by a representative of the registration or other authority to state that the elector or other person included on the form to whom the enquiry relates does not wish his name and address to be used for a purpose other than an electoral or other statutory purpose.


(3) The registration authority may for the purposes of their duties in relation to the preparation of a register require a person—


(a) to give any information in his possession which the registration authority may require;
(b) to produce a certificate of birth, or, if that is not practicable or convenient, to make a statutory declaration as to his age;
(c) to provide documentary evidence or to make a statutory declaration that he is a person entitled to be registered as a Dáil elector under section 8 (2);
(d) to produce a certificate of naturalisation or to make a statutory declaration that he is a citizen of Ireland;
(e) to make a statutory declaration that he is a national of a Member State of the European Communities other than Ireland,


and where a declaration is so required, any fees payable in connection therewith shall be paid by the authority requiring it.


(4) The registration authority shall, during office hours, allow any person to inspect and take a copy of any declaration furnished under paragraph (3).


(5) The registration authority may require the superintendent registrar of births and deaths to furnish lists or other information in connection with deaths of persons in the district of the superintendent registrar. Where the superintendent registrar is an individual, payment for such lists or information shall be made by the registration authority at a rate approved from time to time by the Minister and in any other case no payment shall be made.


(6) From the information obtained under this Rule the registration authority shall prepare and publish a draft register on or before the specified date in each year.