Every electoral registration officer under the M1Representation of the People Act 1949 shall as soon as practicable after the publication of any register of electors for his area deliver to such officer as the Lord Chancellor may designate such number of copies of the register as the designated officer may require for the purpose of summoning jurors, and on each copy there shall be indicated those persons on the register whom the registration officer has ascertained to be, or to have been on a date also indicated on the copy, less than eighteen or more than sixty-five years of age.

The reference in subsection (1) above to a register of electors does not include a ward list within the meaning of section 4(1) of the M2City of London (Various Powers) Act 1957.

In Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1949 (provisions which may be contained in regulations as to registration) the new paragraph 2A, and the additional words " or 2A " in paragraph 12(1), inserted by section 26(1) of the M3Criminal Justice Act 1972, shall continue to have effect notwithstanding the repeal of that section by this Act, but for the reference to that section in the said paragraph 2A there shall be substituted a reference to subsection (1) above.