103. The Act of 1992 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of, in Part XIV, the following section after section 84:

“84A. Where a person is entered on the special voters list under section 17 but the place where the special voter is ordinarily resident is not accessible to the special presiding officer and as a consequence the special voter would be unable to vote at the poll at the election in accordance with section 82, the returning officer for the constituency in which the special voter is ordinarily resident shall, as circumstances may require—

(a) issue a postal vote to that special voter as if that voter was a postal voter entered on the postal voters list under section 14(d) and in that case Part XIII shall apply, or

(b) apply this Part to voting by that special voter with the modification that references in this Part to ‘member of the Garda Síochána’ shall be read as references to ‘relevant official in the place where the special voter is ordinarily resident’.”,

and

(b) in section 84A(a) (as inserted by paragraph (a)), by the substitution of “section 14(1)(d)” for “section 14(d)”.