Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989

Section 2.

SCHEDULE 1 Application and modification of Representation of the People Act 1983

Part I Provisions applied

• Section 3(1) and (2) (disfranchisement of offenders in prison, etc.).

• Section 4(2) (qualifying date).

• Sections 5 to 7 (residence and patient’s declarations).

• Sections 9 to 13 (registers of electors, right to be registered and publication of registers).

• Sections 14 to 17 (service qualifications and service declarations).

• Sections 49 and 50 (effect of registers and of misdescription).

• Section 53 and, in Schedule 2, paragraphs 1(2), 3, 4 to 11A and 13 (regulations as to registration).

• Section 54(2) to (4) (expenses of registration).

• Section 56(1) and (3) to (5) (registration appeals).

• Section 59 (supplemental provisions as to members of forces, etc.).

• Section 62 (offences as to declarations).

• Section 201 (regulations) and, in section 202(1), the definition of “prescribed”.

Part II Modifications

General

1 References to local government elections are to be read as references to local elections.

2 References to section 2 (local government electors in Great Britain) are to be read as references to section 1 of this Act and references to Part I (Parliamentary and local government franchise and its exercise) include section 1 of this Act.

3 References to the registration officer are to be read as references to the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland.

4 References to local government electors are to be read as references to local electors.

5 References to legal incapacity are to legal incapacity within the meaning of this Act.

6 References to any other provision mentioned in Part I of this Schedule are to that provision as modified by this Part.

Specific

7 In section 4(2), for “a parliamentary” there is substituted “an”.

8 In section 9, for subsection (1)(b) there is substituted—

“(b) a register of local electors for each district.”

9 In section 12, the reference in subsection (2)(b) to any enactment includes an enactment comprised in Northern Ireland legislation.

10 In section 13—

(a) in subsection (1) “or, in Northern Ireland, of parliamentary electors” is omitted,

(b) in subsection (2) “parliamentary” is omitted, and

(c) in subsection (4) the reference to the Representation of the People Acts includes section 1 of this Act.

11 In section 14, the reference in subsection (2) to section 1(2) includes section 1(1)(a) of this Act.

12 In section 49—

(a) in subsection (2), in paragraph (b) the reference to a local government area is to be read as a reference to a district and at the end of that subsection there is inserted—

“(c) whether or not a person registered as an elector in a district was during the whole of the period of three months ending on the qualifying date resident in Northern Ireland”, and

(b) in subsection (5) “or entered in the list of proxies” is omitted.

13 In section 50, for paragraph (c) there is substituted—

“(c) in any list, notice or other document required for the purposes of this Part of this Act”.

14 In section 53—

(a) in subsection (1)(a) the words from “or any” to the end are omitted,

(b) in subsection (1)(b) for the words from “the electors lists” to “above” there is substituted “and the electors lists”, and

(c) in subsection (1)(c) “or to voting by post or proxy” is omitted.

15 In section 54, in subsections (3) and (4) paragraph (a) is omitted.

16 In section 56—

(a) subsection (1)(b), and

(b) in subsection (4) the words from the beginning to “and”,

are omitted.

17 In section 59, in subsection (3)(a) the words from “and of” to the end are omitted.

18 In Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 5(2) “or with his appointment as a proxy”,

(b) paragraph 5A, and

(c) in paragraph 13(1)(a) “or paragraph 2”,

are omitted.