Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)

Part I U.K. Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I (ss. 1–66) modified by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), s. 2(6)

Registration of parliamentary and local government electors U.K.

9 Registers of electors. U.K.

(1) It is every registration officer’s duty to prepare and publish in each year—

(a) a register of parliamentary electors for each constituency or part of a constituency in the area for which he acts; and

(b) a register of local government electors for the local government areas or parts of local government areas included in the area for which he acts.

(2) The registers of parliamentary electors and of local government electors shall so far as practicable be combined, the names of persons registered only as [F1 parliamentary electors or] local government electors being marked to indicate that fact.

(3) A registration officer’s general duty to prepare and publish registers of electors in conformity with this Act includes the duty to take reasonable steps to obtain information required by him for that purpose (without prejudice to any specific requirement of this Act or regulations under it).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words inserted by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), s. 4(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 9 extended (N.I.) (with modifications) by Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 3, SIF 42), ss. 2, 13(6), Sch. 1 Pt. I

C3 S. 9(2) applied (S.) by S.I. 1986/1111, reg. 31

C4 S. 9(2) applied (E.W.) by S.I. 1986/1081, reg. 32(1)

C5 S. 9(2) applied (N.I.) by S.I. 1986/1091 reg. 32 (as amended by S.I. 1989/1304 reg. 4(2), Sch. 2 para. 3)