C1C6C7C9C8C10C11C12C13 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

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Registration of parliamentary and local government electors

C29DF1Maintenance of registers: duty to conduct canvass in Great Britain

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Each registration officer in Great Britain must conduct an annual canvass in relation to the area for which the officer acts.

2

The purpose of the canvass is to ascertain—

a

the names and addresses of persons who are entitled to be registered in a register maintained by the officer but who are not registered;

b

those persons who are registered in such a register but who are not entitled to be registered.

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The canvass is to be conducted in a manner to be set out in regulations.

4

The regulations may confer functions on the Electoral Commission (for example, the Commission may be required to design a canvass form F2or, except for the purposes of a register of local government electors in F9Scotland F7or Wales, one or more canvass communications).

5

A registration officer may make house to house inquiries for the purposes of the canvass, for example—

a

to obtain information before sending out a canvass form F3or communication,

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except for the purposes of a register of local government electors in F10Scotland F8or Wales, to obtain the information required by a canvass form,

b

to supplement information provided on a canvass form F5or communication, or

c

to obtain information where no canvass form F6or communication is returned.

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Nothing in this section applies in relation to—

a

the registration of persons in respect of residence in penal institutions (within the meaning of section 3) or mental hospitals (within the meaning of section 7) or other places at which persons to whom section 7A applies may be detained,

b

the registration of persons in pursuance of declarations of local connection, service declarations or overseas electors' declarations, or

c

the registration of persons with anonymous entries in the register.