Poor Law Guardians (Ireland).
[48 Vict.]
Eegister of •voters to be prepared.
A.D.
188U in any such list or lists, or state correctly therein the number of
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votes to which any such ratepayer is actually entitled.
12.
At the prescribed time before the day fixed for the polling, the returning officer shall from such lists, so amended, prepare in the prescribed manner and signilie register of voters for such election, 5 and when so signed the register shall not afterwards he altered.
The register shall state the number of votes to which each voter is entitled, and shall contain such oilier particulars as may he pre¬ scribed, and a separate register .shall
be prepared for each electoral division, and ovory reluming officer shall, on demand, furnish to 10 any person requiring tfw same a copy of the register for any electoral division, at a charge not exceeding one shilling for each hundred names or fraction of a hundred names contained therein, 13.
At any poor law election a person shall not he entitled to vote unless Ids name is on the register of voters, and every person 15 whoso name is on such register shall he entitled to the number of votes sot opposite his name therein, and to vote accordingly, pro¬ vided that on a petition as herein-after provided the register shall not he conclusive, and its correctness in any particular may be questioned.
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"Register to be conclu¬ sive at polling.
PARI1 TT.
Pooja Law Election Petitions.
Poor Jaw 14.
The election of any person at a poor law election for an be6ques-may e^ec*ora^ division may be questioned by petition before the county tioned by court for the county and division within which the workhouse for 25 petition.
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union of which such electoral division forms part is situate
(herein-after referred to as the " court") on any one or more of the following grounds ; that is to say, (a.)
That such person was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes:
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That such person was at the time of the election not duly qualified, or was disqualified to ho a guardian : (e.)
That the returning officer improperly refused to receive or act on the nomination of some other person, or improperly omitted to insert in the ballot paper the name of any person 35 duly nominated: (d.)
That the provisions of this Act or of any order of the Local Government Board for the time being in force relating to poor law elections were violated or were not observed in some material particular s 40
