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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008 No. 1741
115.—(1) In this Part references to the “marked register or lists” means any part of the marked copies of—
(a)the full register;
(b)the postal voters list;
(c)the list of proxies; and
(d)the proxy postal voters list,
retained by the Chief Electoral Officer under rule 57(1A) of the elections rules(1).
(2) For the purposes of this Part any period of days shall be calculated in accordance with regulation 61(5).
(3) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 92, and the condition in paragraph (3) of regulation 113 shall be taken to apply to the supply and processing of information supplied under this Part as they apply to the supply and processing of the full register under Part 6.
(4) Subject to any direction by the Secretary of State under section 52(1) of the 1983 Act, any duty on a Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland to supply records or lists or make them available for inspection under this Part imposes only a duty to provide that information in the form in which he holds it.
Rule 57(1A) was inserted by paragraph 95 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22).
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