S.I. No. 156/2007 - Electoral Regulations 2007.

1. Write 1 in the box beside the photograph of the candidate of your first choice, write 2 in the box beside the photograph of the candidate of your second choice, and so on.

2. Fold the paper to conceal your vote. Show the

back of the paper

to the presiding officer and put it in the ballot box.

Emblem

DOYLE — LIBERAL SOCIALISTS

(MARY DOYLE, of 10 High Street, Knockmore, Nurse.)

Photograph

Emblem

LYNCH — URBAN PARTY

(JANE ELLEN LYNCH, of 12 Main Street, Ardstown, Shopkeeper.)

Photograph

MURPHY

(PATRICK MURPHY, of 12 Main Street, Ballyduff, Carpenter.)

Photograph

Emblem

Ó BRIAIN — CUMANN NA SAORÁNACH

(SÉAMUS Ó BRIAIN, as 10 An tSráid Ard, Carn Mr, Oide Scoile.)

Photograph

O'BRIEN — NON-PARTY

(EAMON O'BRIEN, of 22 Wellclose Place, Knockbeg, Barrister.)

Emblem

O’BRIEN — THE INDEPENDENT PARTY

(ORLA O’BRIEN, of 103 Eaton Brae, Cahermore, Solicitor.)

Photograph

Emblem

O'CONNOR — NATIONAL LEAGUE

(CAROLINE O'CONNOR, of 7 Green Street, Carnmore, Engineer.)

Photograph

Emblem

THOMPSON — RURAL PARTY

(WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, of Dereen, Ballyglass, Farmer.)

Photograph

(Back of Paper)

No. ...........................................................

Election for Constituency of ......................................

(Back of Counterfoil)

Counterfoil No. .................................................

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 April 2007

DICK ROCHE.

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These regulations prescribe the form of nomination paper to be used at a Dáil election, set out the prescribed form of statutory declaration for assenting to certain nominations, specify the photographic identification documents required to be produced by an assentor to a nomination, set out the requirements for the provision of photographs to returning officers by candidates at a Dáil election, set out the requirements for the provision of emblems by political parties to the Registrar of Political Parties for their registration in the Register of Political Parties, set out the form of ballot paper at a Dáil election and specify the documents which a voter may be required to produce at a polling station. Existing regulations covering these matters are revoked.

3. The 2 printed copies of the emblem shall be signed on the back by an officer of the party whose name appears in the Register of Political Parties pursuant to section 25(7)(

d

) of the

Electoral Act 1992

.

Article 7

FIFTH SCHEDULE Form of Ballot Paper

(Front of Paper)

TREORACHA

4. Each copy of the printed photograph shall have the candidate’s name clearly shown on the back.

Article 6.

FOURTH SCHEDULE Emblems

5. Name of current Dáil constituency in which assentor’s address at 2 is located

6. Name of candidate (

name in capitals

)

7. Address of candidate (

address in capitals

)

Assent

8. I assent to the nomination of the candidate referred to at 6 and 7 at the next Dáil election to be held in the constituency in which the address at 2 is located at the time of the election.

9. I have not assented to the nomination of any other candidate at the election referred to at 8 or at any other Dáil election to be held at the same time as that election,

and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the

Statutory Declarations Act 1938

.

Signed..........................................

Declared before me ..............[

name in capitals

] [a notary public] [a commissioner for oaths] [a peace commissioner] [a member of the Garda Síochána] [an official of the registration authority] by...............who is personally known to me at..........................[

place of signature

] this....day of ..........[

date

]

..........................................

[

signature of witness

]

Garda Station/Registration Authority Stamp

[

where appropriate

]

Article 5.

THIRD SCHEDULE Photographs

S.I. No. 156 of 2007

ELECTORAL REGULATIONS 2007.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

20

th April

, 2007.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3, 46 (as amended by

section 1

of the

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2007

(No. 14 of 2007)), 88 (as amended by

section 21

of the

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001

(No. 38 of 2001)) and 111 of the

Electoral Act 1992

(No. 23 of 1992), hereby makes the following Regulations—