S.I. No. 538/2010 - Electoral (Amendment) Regulations 2010.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Regulations 2010.

2. The Electoral (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (

S.I. No. 75 of 2009

) are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

15 November 2010.

JOHN GORMLEY,

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 restore the requirements set out in the Electoral Regulations 2007 in relation to the specified documents which a voter may be required to produce at a polling station and the photographic identification documents required to be produced by a person assenting to the nomination of a non-party candidate (by signing and completing a statutory declaration) in order to reflect requirements appropriate to a Dáil election.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

16

th November

, 2010.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

section 3

of the

Electoral Act 1992

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