Representation of the People Act 1983

Section 53.

SCHEDULE 2 Provisions Which May be Contained in Regulations as to Registration Etc

1 (1) Provisions prescribing the arrangements to be made for the carrying out of his registration duties by a registration officer for part of a constituency, where the constituency is not coterminous with or wholly situated in a district or London borough.

(2) Provisions authorising a registration officer to require persons to give information required for the purpose of his registration duties.

2 Provisions imposing on registration officers the duty of requiring persons to give information required for the purpose of the officer's duty under section 3(1) of the [1974 c. 23.] Juries Act 1974.

3 Provisions laying down a timetable for the preparation of the register and other matters, and providing that notices and other documents received by the registration officer out of time may be or shall be disregarded either altogether or for the purposes of a particular register or election.

4 Provisions as to the manner in which service declarations, and applications and notices from service voters, are to be transmitted to the registration officer.

5 (1) Provisions as to the evidence which shall or may be required, or be deemed sufficient or conclusive evidence, of a person's service declaration having ceased to be in force.

(2) Provisions as to the evidence of age or nationality which may be required in connection with a person's registration otherwise than as a service voter or with his appointment as a proxy.

(3) Provisions requiring any fee payable in connection with the making for the purpose of the regulations of any statutory declaration to be paid by the registration officer.

(4) Provisions as to the evidence which shall or may be required, or be deemed sufficient or conclusive evidence in connection with a person's application to be treated as an absent voter—

(a) of his being subject to any physical incapacity and as to its probable duration; or

(b) of his being bound to any religious observance and of the nature and times of the observance; or

(c) of the fact that he is acting as returning officer at any election ; or

(d) of his employment as a constable or by a returning officer, mayor or person acting as mayor and the circumstances of that employment.

6 Provisions as to the cases in which a claim or objection may be determined by the registration officer without a hearing, and as to a person's right in any such cases to make written representations to him.

7 Provisions authorising a registration officer to require any person's evidence at a hearing before him to be given on oath and to administer oaths for the purpose.

8 Provisions as to marking the register so as to distinguish those registered as service voters and others having special rights as to the place or manner of voting at any election.

9 Provisions as to marking the register so as to distinguish those who are registered by virtue of the special provision about residence applying to merchant seamen or who, though not so registered, are merchant seamen within the meaning of that provision.

10 Provisions requiring copies of the electors lists, register and other documents or prescribed parts of them to be available for inspection by the public at such places as may be prescribed.

11 Provisions authorising or requiring the registration officer to supply to such persons as may be prescribed copies of the electors lists, register and other documents or prescribed parts of them, whether free of charge or on payment of a prescribed fee.

12 Provisions as to the proceedings in connection with the issue and receipt of ballot papers for voting by post (including provisions as to the persons who are to be entitled or may be allowed to attend and the rights and obligations of persons attending), and provisions as to the steps to be taken to ensure the secrecy of the voting and the safe custody (before and after the count) of the ballot papers returned and other documents.

13 (1) Provisions imposing pecuniary penalties (not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, or, in Northern Ireland, not exceeding £100, for any offence) on persons summarily convicted—

(a) of having failed to comply with, or given false information in pursuance of, any such requisition of the registration officer as is mentioned in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 above.

(b) of having, without lawful authority, destroyed, mutilated, defaced or removed any notice published by the registration officer in connection with his registration duties, or any copies of a document which have been made available for inspection in pursuance of those duties.

(2) Any other provisions incidental or supplemental to those mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs of this Schedule.