Electoral Administration Act 2006

Electoral Administration Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 22

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors

Section 5 CORE schemes: supplemental

55. This section makes supplemental provisions in relation to CORE schemes.

56. Subsections (1) and (3) authorise a CORE scheme to specify circumstances in which payments may be required between a CORE keeper and an ERO for an area covered by a CORE scheme, and the circumstances in which a CORE keeper may charge any person for his services and the level of any such charges.

57. Subsection (2) authorises a CORE scheme to make provision enabling a CORE keeper and an ERO to perform some of the other’s functions. Subsection (10) allows a CORE scheme to specify functions that must be carried out personally by a CORE keeper. A CORE keeper may make arrangements with third parties, if he thought it appropriate, with respect to the carrying out of any other functions.

58. A CORE scheme could make special provision for how that scheme and keeper are to operate in respect of a parliamentary constituency that falls partly within, and partly outside, the area covered by that CORE scheme. Paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1983 Act provides for regulations to be made dealing with such a situation and a scheme may apply, with modifications, any regulations made under that provision (subsections (4) and (5)).

59. As information kept and used in a CORE scheme will mainly be held electronically, a power is taken (subsection (6)) to modify any obligation to provide a person’s signature, where that is a requirement for the purposes of an ERO’s responsibilities, in relation to electoral registration or absent voting.