PART II.

Constituencies, Franchise, and Registration.

6. —(1) At every Seanad election—

(a) the National University of Ireland shall be a constituency (in this Act referred to as the National University constituency) for the election of three members of Seanad Eireann, and

(b) the University of Dublin shall be a constituency (in this Act referred to as the Dublin University constituency) for the election of three members of Seanad Eireann, and

(c) every person who is for the time being registered as an elector in the register of electors for the National University constituency shall be entitled to vote in that constituency, and

(d) every person who is for the time being registered as an elector in the register of electors for the Dublin University constituency shall be entitled to vote in that constituency.

(2) No person shall be entitled to vote at an election in a university constituency unless he is registered as an elector in the register of electors for that constituency.

(3) Nothing in this section shall entitle any person to vote at an election in a university constituency while he is prohibited by law from so voting, nor shall anything in this section relieve any person from any penalties to which he may be liable for so voting.

(4) The National University constituency and the Dublin University constituency are in this Act referred to as university constituencies and the expression “university constituency” shall in this Act be construed accordingly.

7. —(1) Every person who is a citizen of Ireland and has received a degree (other than an honorary degree) in the National University of Ireland and has attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the register of electors for the National University constituency.

(2) Every person who is a citizen of Ireland and has received a degree (other than an honorary degree) in the University of Dublin or has obtained a foundation scholarship in that University or, if a woman, has obtained a non-foundation scholarship in the said University and (in any case) has attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the register of electors for the Dublin University constituency.

8. —(1) The governing body of every university which is a university constituency 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 such constituency.

(2) Every register of electors kept under this Act in respect of a university constituency shall be in such form as the governing body of the university forming such constituency shall, with the sanction of the Minister, direct.

(3) The register of electors prepared and kept in pursuance of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), which came into force on the 1st day of June, 1937, for the National University of Ireland constituency established by that Act shall, immediately upon the commencement of this Act, become and be the register of electors for the purposes of this Act of the National University constituency and shall thenceforth be kept in accordance with this Act by the governing body of the National University of Ireland.

(4) The register of electors prepared and kept in pursuance of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), which came into force on the 1st day of June, 1937, for the Dublin University constituency established by that Act shall, immediately upon the commencement of this Act, become and be the register of electors for the purposes of this Act of the Dublin University constituency and shall thenceforth be kept in accordance with this Act by the governing body of Dublin University.

(5) No fee shall be charged by the governing body of a university in respect of the registration of any person in the register of electors for the university constituency consisting of such university.

9. —(1) There shall be a registration officer for each of the university constituencies who shall be appointed and paid by the governing body of the university forming the constituency.

(2) It shall be the duty of every registration officer of a university constituency to revise annually. in accordance with the rules contained in the First Schedule to this Act, the register of electors for such constituency.

(3) Every annual revision, in pursuance of this section, of a register of electors shall be completed before and shall 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 15th day of November to be registered in such register of electors.

10. —The register of electors for each university constituency shall contain the names of all persons who are entitled under this Act to be registered as electors in that constituency, and shall also contain, in respect of every such person, the address at which he is normally resident and also, if he so desires, another address as the address to which his ballot papers are to be sent.

11. —(1) An appeal shall lie to a Judge of the Circuit Court assigned to the Circuit which consists of or includes the county borough of Dublin from any decision of the registration officer for a university constituency on any claim or objection which has been considered by him under this Act.

(2) An appeal shall lie to the High Court on points of law only from a decision of a Judge of the Circuit Court on an appeal under the foregoing sub-section of this section.

(3) No appeal shall lie from a decision of the High Court on an appeal under the next preceding sub-section of this section.

(4) As soon as may be after a decision on an appeal under this section the registrar of the Court shall send to the registration officer notice of such decision, and the registration officer shall make such alterations in the register of electors as shall be necessary to give effect to such decision.

(5) On any appeal under this section, the registration officer shall be named as the respondent or one of the respondents.