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(1)The relevant registration objectives are to secure, so far as reasonably practicable—
(a)that every person who is entitled to be registered in a register is registered in it,
(b)that no person who is not entitled to be registered in a register is registered in it, and
(c)that none of the required information relating to any person registered in a register is false.
(2)But, in applying subsection (1), the registrations of the persons mentioned in section 10(3) (registrations with which a canvass is not concerned) must be disregarded.
(3)“Register” means a register maintained by the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland under section 9.
(4)“The required information” means the following (as appearing in the register or other records of the Chief Electoral Officer)—
(a)the person's name;
(b)the person's qualifying address;
(c)the person's date of birth;
(d)subject to subsections (5) and (6), the person's signature;
(e)the person's national insurance number or a statement that he does not have one.
(5)The required information does not include the person's signature if—
(a)the Chief Electoral Officer has dispensed with the requirement to provide a signature, F2...
F2(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F3(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7)“False”, in relation to a signature, means that the signature is not the usual signature of, or was written by a person other than, the person whose signature it purports to be.
F4(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 10ZB inserted (1.12.2006) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 4, 31; S.I. 2006/2688, art. 3(1)(2)(a)
F2S. 10ZB(5)(b) and preceding word repealed (2.4.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 23(2), 27(1); S.I. 2013/702, art. 3(e)
F3S. 10ZB(6) repealed (2.4.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 23(2), 27(1); S.I. 2013/702, art. 3(e)
F4S. 10ZB(8) repealed (2.4.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 23(2), 27(1); S.I. 2013/702, art. 3(e)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 10ZB extended (Northern Ireland) (with modifications) (1.12.2006) by 1989 c. 3, Sch. 1 (as amended by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 30(1), 31, Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(a); S.I. 2006/2688, art. 3(2)(c))
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