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24A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a registration officer has doubts about a person’s (“P’s”) age or nationality, the officer may require P to produce such evidence as specified in paragraph (3) for the purposes of registration as a parliamentary elector or as a local government elector in England.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where an application for registration is made in pursuance of a service declaration.
(3) The evidence which the registration officer may require is—
(a)a birth certificate;
(b)a certificate of naturalisation;
(c)where P has made an overseas elector’s declaration, further evidence of P’s status as a British citizen, including a document showing that P has become a British citizen by virtue of registration;
(d)in any other case—
(i)a document showing that P has become a Commonwealth citizen by virtue of registration, or
(ii)a statutory declaration that P is a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, citizen of the Republic of Ireland, [F2a qualifying EU citizen or an EU citizen with retained rights].
(4) Where P has made an overseas elector’s declaration, the registration officer may require a copy of a document referred to in paragraph (3)(a) to (c).
(5) If any fee is payable in connection with the making of a declaration for the purposes of this regulation, the registration officer must pay that fee and it is to be treated as part of the officer’s registration expenses within the meaning of section 54(1) of the 1983 Act.
(6) Subject to paragraph (7), any such declaration must be made available for inspection at the registration officer’s office until the determination of the application for registration and of any objections duly made to it.
(7) Paragraph (6) does not apply where the declarant has, or has applied for, an anonymous entry.
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Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 24A inserted (16.1.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with Sch. 2 para. 2(b))
F2Words in reg. 24A(3)(d)(ii) substituted (7.5.2024) by The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1406), regs. 1(3), 15(2)
F3Reg. 24A(8) omitted (21.5.2024) by virtue of The Representation of the People (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/665), regs. 1(1), 2(3) (with reg. 1(5))
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