STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No. 175 of 2004

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2004

S.I. No. 175 of 2004

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2004

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3 and 111 of the Electoral Act 1992 (No. 23 of 1992) hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Regulations 2004.

2. The Electoral Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 144 of 2002 ) are hereby amended by the substitution of the following articles for articles 3 and 4.

“3.  The specified documents for the purpose of section 111 of the said Act shall be:

(i) a passport; (ii) a driving licence; (iii) an employee identity card containing a photograph; (iv) a student identity card issued by an educational institution and containing a photograph; (v) a travel document containing name and photograph; (vi) a Bank or Savings or Credit Union book containing address in constituency or electoral area; (vii) a Temporary Residence Certificate card, (viii) a Garda National Immigration Bureau card; (ix) a cheque book; (x) a cheque card; (xi) a credit card; (xii) a birth certificate; (xiii) a marriage certificate. Items (ix) to (xiii) must be accompanied by a further document which establishes the address of the holder in the constituency or local electoral area.

4.   The prescribed photographic identification for the purposes of section 46(4B)(d) shall be a passport, driving licence, employee identity card containing a photograph, student identity card issued by an educational institution and containing a photograph; bank card with a photograph, travel document containing name and photograph; Temporary Residence Certificate card; Garda National Immigration Bureau card.”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These regulations amend the specified documents which a voter may be required to produce at a polling station to include a Temporary Residence Certificate card and a Garda National Immigration Bureau card. These identity documents, together with a travel document containing name and photograph, are also added to the list of documents required by a person in order to assent to a nomination paper lodged by certain candidates for assenting to by registered electors in a constituency or local electoral area.