The Voter Identification Regulations 2022

Replacement of anonymous elector’s document following change of electoral number E+W+S

29.—(1) A registration officer must issue a person to whom this Chapter applies by virtue of regulation 27(1) with a new anonymous elector’s document and regulations 16(1) and 17 apply in relation to the issue of the new document as those regulations apply following the granting of an identity document application in accordance with regulation 11(2)(a), subject to the modifications set out in paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) References to the applicant are to be read as references to the person issued with a document under this regulation.

(3) In regulation 16(1)(c), the reference to the photograph of the applicant is to be read as a reference to the photograph of the person contained in the issued document record entry relating to the anonymous elector’s document described in regulation 27(1)(a).

(4) In regulation 17—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) the reference to regulation 16 is to be read as a reference to this regulation;

(ii) the reference to the applicant’s relevant delivery address is to be read as a reference to—

(aa) where the person is registered in pursuance of a service declaration, the person’s present address, correspondence address or British Forces Post Office Number;

(bb) where the person is registered in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration, the person’s present address;

(cc) otherwise, the address in respect of which the person is registered as an elector;

(b) in paragraph (3)(a), the reference to regulation 4(1)(f) is to be read as a reference to regulation 28(d);

(c) in paragraph (7), the reference to a notification under regulation 12 is to be read as a reference to a notification under regulation 28.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 29 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)