C8C10C11C13C12C14C15C16C17 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

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Registration of parliamentary and local government electors

C1C2C6F19 Registers of electors.

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Each registration officer shall maintain—

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.

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F4Subject to any other provision of this Act, each register shall contain—

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the names of persons who appear to the registration officer to be entitled to be registered in it and in respect of whom a successful application for registration has been made;

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(subject to any prescribed exceptions) the qualifying addresses of the persons registered in it; and

c

in relation to each such person, that person’s electoral number.

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A person’s electoral number is such number (with or without any letters) as is for the time being allocated by the registration officer to that person as his electoral number for the purposes of the register in question.

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Electoral numbers shall be allocated by a registration officer in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that in each separate part of a register the numbers run consecutively.

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The registers of parliamentary electors and of local government electors shall so far as practicable be combined, the F2entries of persons registered only as parliamentary electors or local government electors being marked to indicate that fact.

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In relation to the registration of local government electors in Scotland, the entry in the combined registers of any person aged 16 or 17 who is registered only as a local government elector must give the date on which the person will attain the age of 18.

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In relation to the registration of local government electors in Wales—

a

the entry in the combined registers of any person aged 16 or 17 who is registered only as a local government elector must give the date on which the person will attain the age of 18;

b

the entry in the combined registers of any person who is registered only as a local government elector by virtue of section 4(3A) of this Act must give an indication of that fact.

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Where under this section two or more registration officers maintain registers of parliamentary electors in respect of different parts of the same constituency, then in relation to that constituency any reference in this Act (whether express or implied) to the register of parliamentary electors for a constituency shall be read—

a

as a reference to one of those registers, or

b

in relation to one of those registration officers, as the register maintained by him,

as the context may require.

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In this Act—

a

any reference, in relation to a registration officer, to “his” registers is a reference to the registers maintained by him under this section; and

b

“qualifying address”, in relation to a person registered in a register of electors, is the address in respect of which he is entitled to be so registered.