Reminders to electors registered pursuant to a declarationN.I.
26.—(1) This regulation applies in respect of a person registered in pursuance of—
(a)a service declaration;
(b)a declaration of local connection; or
(c)an overseas elector’s declaration.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the registration officer shall, during the relevant period, send a person to whom this regulation applies a reminder of the need to make a fresh declaration if he wishes to remain registered as an elector in pursuance of such a declaration.
(3) In paragraph (2) the “relevant period” means–
(a)except in cases to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, the period beginning nine months after the date when the existing entry in the register of the person in question first takes effect and ending ten months after that date;
(b)in the case of a person mentioned in section 14(1)(a) or (d) of the 1983 Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners registered via the service declaration procedure), the period beginning 33 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 34 months after that date.
(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply in respect of a person to whom this regulation applies where—
(a)the registration officer has already received from that person a fresh declaration; or
(b)information which the registration officer has received indicates that that person is no longer entitled to make the relevant declaration.