Registration of Electors and Juries Acts (Specification of Dates) Regulations, 1963

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1963
• Citation: IR SI 169/1963

S.I. No. 169 of 1963.
REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS AND JURIES ACTS (SPECIFICATION OF DATES) REGULATIONS, 1963.
ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES.
1. Short title.
2. Revocations.
3. Definitions.
4. Specified dates and periods.
5. Form and contents of register.
6. Effect of register.
7. Postal voters list.
8. Preparation of draft register.
9. Persons to whom draft register is to be sent.
10. Claims for corrections in draft register.
11. Consideration of claims by county registrar.
12. Enquiries and claims by county registrar.
13. Correction of draft register.
14. Objections to corrections.
15. Return of corrected list of claims.
16. Publication of register.
17. Absence, incapacity or vacancy in office of county registrar.
18. Inspection and fees for copies of registers.
19. Publication of documents.
20. Mode of sending notices, etc.
21. Specification of dates for purposes of Juries Acts.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
SPECIFIED FORMS.
R.F.1. Register of electors.
R.F.2. List of claims.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
SPECIFIED DATES.
S.I. No. 169 of 1963.
REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS AND JURIES ACTS (SPECIFICATION OF DATES) REGULATIONS, 1963.
The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 , 6 and 7 of the Electoral Act, 1963 (No. 19 of 1963), hereby makes the following Regulations as respects which pursuant to the said section 7, the Minister for Justice has been consulted, and pursuant to the said sections 5, 6 and 7 a draft has been approved by a resolution passed by each House of the Oireachtas:
	1 Short title.	1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Electors and Juries Acts (Specification of Dates) Regulations, 1963.
	2 Revocations.	2. The following are hereby revoked—
(1) The Electoral Act (Alteration of Registration Rules) Order, 1933, (S.R. & O. 1933 No. 177);
(2) The Electoral Act (Alteration of Registration Rules) Order, 1940, (S.R. & O. 1940 No. 341);
(3) Articles 5 and 6 of, and forms E.A.1 to E.A.19 in the First Schedule, and the Second and Third Schedules to, the Electoral Order, 1946, (S.R. & O. 1946 No. 96);
(4) The Electoral Act (Alteration of Registration Rules) Order, 1948, ( S.I. No. 342 of 1948 );
(5) Articles 2 and paragraph (d) of article 3 of, and form E.A.19 in the Schedule to the Electoral (Amendment) Order, 1961, ( S.I. No. 27 of 1961 ).
	3 Definitions.	3. —(1) In these Regulations—
"the county registrar" means the county registrar for the county, county borough or other area coterminous with or contained in a registration area or a person appointed or designated under article 17 to perform the duties of a county registrar;
"elector" means, as the context may require, a Dáil elector or a local government elector;
"jury district" has the same meaning as in the Juries Acts, 1927 to 1961;
"local authority" means the council of a county, the corporation of a county or other borough, the council of an urban district and the commissioners of a town;
"local electoral area" means the area or any of the areas by reference to which a local election is held;
"the Minister" means the Minister for Local Government;
"polling district" means a polling district in a scheme in force under section 22 of the Electoral Act, 1963 ;
"the register" means, as the context may require, the register of Dáil and local government electors or the register either of Dáil electors or of local government electors and, where the context so requires, includes the postal voters list;
"registration area" means an administrative county or county borough;
"registration authority" means the council of a county or the corporation of a county borough.
(2) A reference in these Regulations to "the specified date" means, in relation to any purpose, the date specified in the Second Schedule as the specified date for that purpose.
	4 Specified dates and periods.	4.—(1) The qualifying date for a register shall be the 15th day of September in the year preceding the year in which the register comes into force.
(2) Each register shall come into force on the fourteenth day after its publication.
(3) The 15th day of April in the year in which a register comes into force shall be the date by reference to which a person's age shall be taken for the purposes of section 5 of the Electoral Act, 1963 .
(4) The period between the date of publication of the register and its coming into force shall be the period for ascertaining if any corrections in a register are necessary because of errors of a clerical or typographical nature.
(5) The date on or by reference to which any act or thing is required by these Regulations to be performed or done shall be the date specified for that purpose in the Second Schedule to these Regulations.
(6) Where the date on or by reference to which any act or thing is required by these Regulations to be performed or done falls on a Sunday or a public or bank holiday that act or thing shall be done on or by reference to the next day which is not a Sunday or a public or bank holiday.
	5 Form and contents of the register.	5.—(1) The register shall be in the form R.F.1. and shall, as respects each polling district, contain the names of all persons who are entitled to be registered as electors on the qualifying date for the register.
(2) The names in the register for a registration area shall be arranged under polling districts and—
(a) if the registration area is a county borough, shall be arranged in street order unless the registration authority consider that having regard to the general character of any part of the area arrangement in street order for that part is inappropriate,
(b) if the registration area is an administrative county, shall be arranged alphabetically in townland order unless the registration authority consider that, having regard to the general character of any part of the area, arrangement in street order or in any other order is possible and convenient.
(3) The liability of a person to serve as a juror in respect of any jury district shall be identified by the placing of the letter "J" against such person's name at the place in the register at which the person is entered as an elector, notwithstanding that his qualification for serving as a juror may be in respect of other lands than those at which his address as stated in the register is situated.
	6 Effect of register.	6. The parts of the register for the polling districts in a constituency, so far as they relate to Dáil electors, shall be the register of Dáil electors for that constituency, and the parts of the register for the polling districts in a local electoral area, so far as they relate to local government electors, shall be the register of local government electors for that area.
	7 Postal voters list.	7. The registration authority shall prepare as part of the register a separate list in such form as may be directed by the Minister for the whole registration area, or, where the area includes all or part of more than one constituency, for each such constituency or part of a constituency in the area, of persons entitled to vote as postal voters without, however, removing the names of those voters from any other part of the register.
	8 Preparation of draft register.	8.—(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.
(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 produce a certificate of naturalisation or to make a statutory declaration that he is a citizen of 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 such declaration.
(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 article the registration authority shall prepare and publish a draft register on or before the specified date in each year.
	9 Persons to whom draft register is to be sent.	9.—(1) The registration authority shall, as soon as may be after the publication of the draft register, send a copy of the draft register—
(a) for the registration area—to the Minister, the county registrar and each head postmaster in the area;
(b) for a constituency—to each member of Dáil Éireann for that constituency and each member of Seanad Éireann residing in that constituency;
(c) for a local electoral area—to each local authority member for that area.
(2) The registration authority shall send with each copy of the draft register sent in pursuance of...