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30 1937

SEANAD ELECTORAL (UNIVERSITY MEMBERS) ACT, 1937

PART IV.

Miscellaneous.

Resignation of membership of Seanad Eireann.

29. —(1) A member of Seanad Eireann for a university constituency may voluntarily resign his membership of Seanad Eireann by notice in writing to the Chairman of Seanad Eireann who shall announce such resignation to Seanad Eireann at the next meeting thereof.

(2) The resignation under this section of a member of Seanad Eireann shall take effect immediately upon the announcement thereof by the Chairman of Seanad Eireann in pursuance of this section.

Restriction on candidature at Seanad bye-elections.

30. —No member of Seanad Eireann shall, while retaining his membership thereof, be a candidate at a Seanad bye-election.

Election for two university constituencies.

31. —Whenever at a Seanad general election a person is elected as a member of Seanad Eireann for two university constituencies, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) such person shall, by writing under his hand delivered to the Clerk of Seanad Eireann before taking his seat for either of those constituencies, declare which one of those constituencies he will represent in Seanad Eireann;

(b) if such person does not deliver, within one month after the first meeting of Seanad Eireann after such Seanad general election, such declaration as is mentioned in the next preceding paragraph of this section to the Clerk of Seanad Eireann in accordance with that paragraph, such person shall be deemed to have declared at the expiration of such month that he will represent in Seanad Eireann that one of the said constituencies in which he received the greatest number of first preferences at such Seanad general election;

(c) as soon as such person has declared or is deemed to have declared which of those constituencies he will represent in Seanad Eireann, he shall be deemed to have resigned his seat in Seanad Eireann as a member thereof for the other of those constituencies.

Election as university member and as panel member.

32. —Whenever at a general election of members of Seanad Eireann a person is elected as a member of Seanad Eireann for a university constituency (in this section referred to as a university member) and also as a member of Seanad Eireann elected from a panel of candidates constituted in pursuance of section 7 of Article 18 of the Constitution (in this section referred to as a panel member), the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) such person shall, by writing under his hand delivered to the Clerk of Seanad Eireann before taking his seat in either capacity, declare whether he will sit in Seanad Eireann as a university member or as a panel member;

(b) if such person does not deliver, within one month after the first meeting of Seanad Eireann after such general election, such declaration as is mentioned in the next preceding paragraph of this section to the Clerk of Seanad Eireann in accordance with that paragraph, such person shall be deemed to have declared at the expiration of such month that he will sit in Seanad Eireann as a university member;

(c) as soon as such person has declared or is deemed to have declared in which of the said capacities he will sit in Seanad Eireann, he shall be deemed to have resigned his seat in Seanad Eireann as a member thereof in the other of those capacities.