Electoral Registration Commissioner Bill 2005
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
The proposal would create an independent Electoral Registration Commissioner to oversee local authorities, improve the accuracy and timeliness of electoral registers, provide guidance and public information, and intervene where registration work is inadequate. It would also allow authorities to use PPS numbers and information from public bodies and utilities to verify voters and prevent duplicate or fraudulent registrations, with limits on sharing and publishing that information.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to establish the office of electoral registration commissioner, to define the functions and set out the duties of that office in relation to the supervision of the performance by registration authorities of their duties in the preparation and publication of electoral registers, to provide for access by registration authorities to information relating to persons resident within their registration areas, to make provision for the use of personal public service numbers in connection with the registration of electors and with establishing the identity of persons applying for ballot papers at elections, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 September 2018
- Eamon Gilmore Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil Defeated
- Electoral Registration Commissioner Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Electoral Registration Commissioner Bill 2005: Second Stage. Dáil
- Electoral Registration Commissioner Bill 2005: First Stage. Dáil