The Electoral Registration (Postponement of 2013 Annual Canvass) Order 2013

Postponement of 2013 annual canvass

2.—(1) The annual canvass for 2013 to be conducted under section 10(1) of the Act shall be postponed.

(2) A registration officer must not conduct any part of that canvass before 1st October 2013.

(3) That canvass must be conducted within the period starting on 1st October 2013 and ending on 17th February 2014 in relation to England and on 10th March 2014 in relation to Scotland and Wales.

(4) Section 10A(2A)(1) of the Act shall apply to that canvass as if the reference to 15th October were a reference to the date the canvass form was received by the registration officer and the reference in section 4(6) of the Act to section 10A(2)(2) shall be treated as a reference to section 10A(2) as subject to the modification in this paragraph.

(5) Section 10A(5)(a)(3) of the Act shall apply to that canvass as if the reference to 15th October were omitted.

(1)

1983 c. 2; section 10A (2A) was inserted by section 39 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 c.12

(2)

Section 10A(2) was amended by section 39 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 and Schedule 7, to the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009.

(3)

Section 10A(5)(a) was amended by section 33(2) and (5)(f) of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009, but the amendment is not in force.