DÃ¡il Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the DÃ¡il Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961.
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paragraphs: The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations—
" the Act " means the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923);
" agent " means an election agent of a candidate;
" candidate " means a candidate in an election;
" communication " means a communication entitled to be sent free of any charge for postage by a candidate to an elector;
" constituency " means a constituency for a DÃ¡il election;
" election " means a DÃ¡il election;
" elector " means a person registered as an elector in a register for a constituency;
" the Minister " means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs;
" postal vote " means a vote cast by an elector on the postal voters' list for a constituency;
" postal voters' list " means the postal voters' list for a constituency in a DÃ¡il election.
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paragraphs: (1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no communication addressed to an elector in any constituency shall be posted, conveyed or delivered by post unless the communication is posted within the constituency.
(2) Where the permission of the head postmaster of the district in which communications are to be posted has been obtained, a candidate or his agent may post communications addressed to electors in a constituency adjoining that district.
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paragraphs: Notice of intention to post communications shall be given by the candidate or by his agent not later than the day before posting to the head postmaster of the district in which they are to be posted.
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paragraphs: A communication addressed to an elector in any constituency may be posted at any post office in that constituency, or, if the permission of the head postmaster of a district in the constituency has been obtained, at a sub-post office in that district.
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paragraphs: Where a candidate or his agent wishes to post communications at different post offices within a constituency he shall make arrangements for that purpose before doing so with one only of the head postmasters in the constituency.
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paragraphs: The following conditions shall apply in relation to communications:—
(a) communications shall either be enclosed in closed or unclosed covers or be folded in at least three folds, provided that a communication which, in the opinion of any officer of the Minister, is likely to impede sorting or to become unfolded or to entrap other postal packets if sent folded shall not be so sent,
(b) the words " Litir um ThoghchÃ¡n " or the words " Election Communication " shall be printed or stamped or legibly written at the top of the address side of the communication or, if the communication is enclosed in a cover, of the cover and no other matter shall appear thereon, except the elector's name, address, voter's number, the electoral division and the notice referred to in paragraph (b) of Regulation 12 hereof,
(c) communications shall not exceed nine inches in length and four and one half inches in width and the weight of the communications shall not exceed two ounces,
(d) communications shall be handed in between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon at such post office as shall be designated for that purpose by the head postmaster to whom notice of intention to post such communications has been given,
(e) communications shall be—
(i) faced the same way,
(ii) tied in bundles of 120 communications, and
(iii) as far as possible sorted according to streets or districts,
(f) where permission has been given by a head postmaster to post any communications addressed to places outside the constituency, those communications shall be tied in separate bundles,
(g) the Minister shall not be under any obligation to deliver wrongly addressed or insufficiently addressed communications,