Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 6 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/798), regs. 1, 7, Sch. 1
11.—(1) In order to register a business vote holder in the business voting register, the business registration officer must receive both registration response forms, completed, no later than 5pm on the eleventh day before the date of the business referendum.
(2) The business registration officer must keep a note of registration response forms received.
(3) A voting registration form will only be regarded as completed for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) if it is signed by the business vote holder (subject to paragraph 12(1)), dated, and contains—
(a)the full name of the business vote holder;
(b)the full name of the person being named as the named voter; and
(c)a declaration by the business vote holder that, as far as they know, the particulars given in the form are true.
(4) A voting choices form will only be regarded as completed for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) if it is signed by the named voter (subject to paragraph 12(1)), dated, and contains—
(a)the address to which the postal ballot paper, or polling card, should be sent;
(b)the date of birth of the named voter;
(c)the nationality of the named voter;
(d)a statement of whether the named voter wishes to vote by post or in person; and
(e)a declaration by the named voter that, as far as they know, the particulars given in the form are true.
12.—(1) The business registration officer may dispense with the requirement for a named voter to provide a signature if that officer is satisfied that the named voter is unable—
(a)to provide a signature because of any disability the person has,
(b)to provide a signature because the person is unable to read or write, or
(c)to sign in a consistent and distinctive way because of any such disability or inability.
(2) The signature and date of birth on the voting choices form must be set out in a manner that is sufficiently clear and unambiguous as to be capable of electronic scanning into the record by configuring the information as follows—
(a)each signature must appear against a background of white unlined paper of at least five centimetres long and two centimetres high; and
(b)each date of birth must be set out numerically configured in the sequence of date, month and year, namely [d][d][m][m][y][y][y][y].
13.—(1) A business registration officer is authorised to inspect, for the purposes of that officer’s duties in connection with the business referendum, records kept (in whatever form) by—
(a)an authority listed in sub-paragraph (2), or
(b)any person authorised to exercise any function of, any such authority.
(2) Those authorities are—
(a)the council by which the business registration officer was appointed,
(b)if the referendum area comprises any part of the area of more than one relevant council, any other relevant council; and
(c)any registrar of births and deaths.
(3) A business registration officer is authorised to make copies of information contained in such records.
14.—(1) Where a business registration officer has doubts about a named voter’s age or nationality, the business registration officer may require that person to produce such evidence as is specified in sub-paragraph (2) for the purposes of compiling the business voting register.
(2) The evidence which the business registration officer may require is as follows—
(a)a birth certificate or a statutory declaration as to the person’s date of birth;
(b)a certificate of naturalisation;
(c)a statutory declaration that the person is a qualifying citizen.
(3) If any fee is payable in connection with the making of a declaration for the purposes of this paragraph, the business registration officer must pay that fee and it shall be treated as part of that officer’s registration expenses within the meaning of section 54(1) of the 1983 Act as applied to these Regulations by virtue of Schedule 8.]