C10C16C17C19C18C20C21C22C23 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Supplemental provisions as to parliamentary and local government elections

C1C2C3C4C1549 Effect of registers.

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Any entry in the register of parliamentary or local government electors, if it gives a date as that on which the person named will attain voting age, shall for any purpose of this Part relating to him as elector be conclusive that until the date given in the entry he is not of voting age nor entitled to be treated as an elector except for the purposes of an election at which the day fixed for the poll is that or a later date.

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Subsection (4) applies to an entry in the record of anonymous entries as it applies to an entry in the register of parliamentary or local government electors.

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A person registered as a parliamentary or local government elector, or entered in the list of proxies, shall not be excluded from voting on any of the following grounds: but this shall not prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or affect his liability to any penalty for voting.

The grounds are—

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that he is not of voting age;

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that he F5is not or was not at any particular time—

i

a Commonwealth citizen;

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a citizen of the Republic of Ireland;

iii

in the case of a person registered as a parliamentary elector in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration, a British citizen;

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in the case of a person registered as a local government elector or entered in the list of proxies by virtue of being a relevant citizen of the Union, a relevant citizen of the Union;

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that he F6is or was at any particular time otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.

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