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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (Council Tax Increases) (England) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2014 No. 925
3. In regulation 12 (general restriction on referendum expenses), in paragraph (1), for the definition of “the relevant register” substitute—
““the relevant register”, in relation to a referendum, means the register (or registers) or part of the register of local government electors kept in accordance with section 9 of the 1983 Act(1) which has or have effect in the voting area on the day on which the referendum period begins (whether or not the persons to whom the entries relate are entitled to vote in the referendum).”
Regulation 2 of the 2012 Regulations defines “the 1983 Act” as the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2). Section 9 was substituted by paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2).
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