Guidelines for the general election to the 30th Dáil

A. Appointment of a national agent

3.1   Each political party with one or more candidates contesting the election must appoint a national agent.  The national agent must have an office or place in the State to which claims, notices, writs, summonses and other documents may be sent. 

3.2   Not later than the last day for receiving nominations at the election the political party must notify the Standards Commission, in writing, of the name of the national agent and of the address of the office of the agent.  If a political party has not notified the Standards Commission of the name of the national agent by this time, the party's "appropriate officer" (appointed under section 71 of the Act) will be deemed to be the national agent.  If an appropriate officer has not been appointed, the party leader is deemed to be the party's appropriate officer and, as such, its national agent. 

3.3   The Standards Commission will publish in Iris Oifigiúil  the names of the national agents appointed or deemed to have been appointed. 

3.4   A political party may, at any time, revoke the appointment of a national agent, and appoint another national agent in his/her place.  Where this occurs, details of the new national agent must be provided to the Standards Commission.

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