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(1)A person is entitled to be registered in the register of parliamentary electors for any constituency or part of a constituency if on the relevant date he—
(a)is resident in the constituency or that part of it;
(b)is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart);
(c)is either a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland; and
(d)is of voting age.
F2(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)A person is entitled to be registered in the register of local government electors for any electoral area if on the relevant date he—
(a)is resident in that area;
(b)is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart);
(c)is a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland or a relevant citizen of the Union; and
(d)is of voting age [F3or, if resident in an area in Wales, is 16 years of age or over].
[F4(3A)A person is also entitled to be registered in the register of local government electors for any electoral area in Wales if on the relevant date the person—
(a)is resident in that area,
(b)is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart) in an election of members (or of a member) of Senedd Cymru,
(c)is a qualifying foreign citizen, and
(d)is 16 years of age or over.]
(4)The preceding provisions have effect—
(a)subject to—
(i)any enactment imposing a disqualification for registration as a parliamentary, or (as the case may be) local government, elector; and
(ii)compliance with any prescribed requirements; and
(b)(as respects registration as a parliamentary elector) without prejudice to section 2(1) of the Representation of the M1People Act 1985 (registration of British citizens overseas).
(5)A person otherwise qualified is (despite subsection (1)(d) or (3)(d), as the case may be) entitled to be registered in a register of parliamentary electors or local government electors if he will attain voting age before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the 1st December next following the relevant date, but—
(a)his entry in the register shall give the date on which he will attain that age; and
(b)until the date given in the entry he shall not by virtue of the entry be treated as an elector for any purposes other than those of an election the date of the poll for which is the date so given or any later date.
[F5(5A)If a person entitled to be registered by virtue of subsection (5) above has an anonymous entry in the register, the references in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection to his entry in the register are to be read as references to his entry in the record of anonymous entries prepared in pursuance of paragraph 8A of Schedule 2 below.]
[F6(5B)In relation to a register of local government electors for any electoral area in Wales, the reference to “voting age” in subsection (5) is to be interpreted as “16 years of age”]
(6)In this section—
“qualifying Commonwealth citizen” means a Commonwealth citizen who either—
is not a person who requires leave under the M2Immigration Act 1971 to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, or
is such a person but for the time being has (or is, by virtue of any enactment, to be treated as having) any description of such leave;
“the relevant date”, in relation to a person, means—
the date on which an application for registration is made (or, by virtue of section 10A(2) below, is treated as having been made) by him;
in the case of a person applying for registration in pursuance of a declaration of local connection or a service declaration, the date on which the declaration was made.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 4 and preceding cross-heading substituted for s. 4 (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and 16.2.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 2, s. 1(2); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))
F2S. 4(2) repealed (1.10.2014) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 14(1)(a)(i), 28; S.I. 2014/2613, art. 2(2)(a)
F3Words in s. 4(3)(d) inserted (E.W.) (1.6.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), ss. 12(1)(a), 42(3)(a)
F4S. 4(3A) inserted (E.W.) (1.6.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), ss. 12(1)(b), 42(3)(a)
F5S. 4(5A) inserted (E.W.S.) (1.1.2007) by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), ss. 10, 77, Sch. 1 para. 3; S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 paras. 1, 12(a) (subject to transitional provisions and savings in art. 6, Sch. 2) (amendment extended to N.I. (15.9.2014) by The Anonymous Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1116), arts. 1(1), 2(2))
F6S. 4(5B) inserted (E.W.) (1.6.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), ss. 12(1)(c), 42(3)(a)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 4(5) applied (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.7.2008) by The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1741), reg. 14(3)(4), Sch. 4
C2S. 4(6) modified (E.W.S.) (27.3.2013) by The Electoral Registration (Postponement of 2013 Annual Canvass) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/794), arts. 1(1), 2(4)
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