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In sections 1(3)(c) and 3(4)(c) of the Representation of the M1People Act 1985 (person resident abroad may qualify as an elector if previously included, as resident in the United Kingdom, in a register prepared by reference to a date within the preceding five years), for “five years” there is substituted “ twenty years ”.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1-4 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 15(2), 17(3), Sch. 7; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
Marginal Citations
(1)After section 1(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (conditions for qualifying as an overseas elector include previous registration as resident in the United Kingdom) there is inserted—
“(3A)The second set of conditions is that—
(a)he was last resident in the United Kingdom within the period of twenty years ending immediately before the qualifying date,
(b)he was by reason only of his age incapable of being included in any register of parliamentary electors prepared by reference to the last date within that period by reference to which such registers were prepared on which he was so resident, and
(c)the address at which he was resident on the date referred to in paragraph (b) above was at a place that is situated within the constituency concerned and a parent or guardian of his was included, in respect of that address, in a register of parliamentary electors or a register of local government electors prepared by reference to that date”.
(2)After section 3(4) of that Act (conditions for peer to qualify as an overseas elector for European Parliamentary elections include previous registration as resident in the United Kingdom) there is inserted—
“(4A)The second set of conditions is that—
(a)he was last resident in the United Kingdom within the period of twenty years ending immediately before the qualifying date,
(b)he was by reason only of his age incapable of being included in any register of local government electors prepared by reference to the last date within that period by reference to which such registers were prepared on which he was so resident, and
(c)the address at which he was resident on the date referred to in paragraph (b) above was at a place that is situated within the constituency concerned and a parent or guardian of his was included, in respect of that address, in a register of parliamentary electors or a register of local government electors prepared by reference to that date”].
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 1-4 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 15(2), 17(3), Sch. 7 Pt. I; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
(1)In section 1 of the Representation of the M2People Act 1985—
(a)in subsection (2)(b), for “the following” there is substituted “ one of the following sets of ”,
(b)in subsection (3), for “Those conditions are” there is substituted “ The first set of conditions is ”, and
(c)at the end of subsection (4) there is inserted “ and the reference in subsection (3A) above to a register of local government electors includes a reference to a register of electors prepared for the purposes of local elections (within the meaning of the M3Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962) ”.
(2)In section 2 of that Act—
(a)in subsection (1), at the end of paragraph (b) there is inserted “ or, as the case may be, at which he was resident ”,
(b)in subsection (2), after “year” there is inserted “ (being a year during the whole or any part of which he may be entitled to vote) ”,
(c)in subsection (4)—
(i)for the words from “specify the” to “such address” there is substituted—
“(a)show which set of conditions in section 1 of this Act the declarant claims to satisfy,
(b)in the case of the first set of conditions, specify the address in respect of which he was registered, and
(c)in the case of the second set of conditions, specify—
(i)the date of the declarant’s birth,
(ii)the address in the United Kingdom at which he was resident, and
(iii)the name of the parent or guardian on whose registration in respect of that address he relies, and whether the person named was a parent or guardian,and may not, in the case of either set of conditions, specify more than one such address”, and
(ii)after “registered” there is inserted “ or, as the case may be, at which he was resident ”.
(3)In section 3 of that Act—
(a)in subsection (3)(b), for “the following” there is substituted “ one of the following sets of ”, and
(b)in subsection (4), for “Those conditions are” there is substituted “ The first set of conditions is ”.]
Textual Amendments
F3Ss. 1-4 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 15(2), 17(3), Sch. 7 Pt. I; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
Marginal Citations
In section 2(3) of the Representation of the M4People Act 1985 (overseas electors’ declarations), paragraph (e) (declarant to state that he does not intend to reside permanently outside the United Kingdom) and the preceding “and” are repealed and at the end of paragraph (c) there is inserted “ and ”.]
Textual Amendments
F4Ss. 1-4 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 15(2), 17(3), Sch. 7 Pt. I; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
Marginal Citations
In Schedule 2 to the Representation of the M5People Act 1983 (provisions that may be contained in regulations about registration), after paragraph 2 there is inserted—
Provisions requiring registration officers to remind persons registered in pursuance of overseas electors’ declarations in a register of parliamentary electors of the need to make fresh declarations in order to be so registered in the subsequent register.”