SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transitional provision to do with Part 1

PART 3Encouraging new applications

Registration officers to invite applications in year of first new canvass from those with existing registrations

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1

A registration officer in Great Britain must, within a prescribed period, give an invitation to make a new application for registration in a register maintained by the officer to each person who—

a

has an entry in the register but has not had his or her entitlement to remain registered confirmed, and

b

has not made a new application for registration.

2

But the officer need not give an invitation at a time when the officer has reason to believe, from records available to the officer, that the person is no longer resident at the address to which the entry relates.

3

The period prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph must begin in the year in which the first new canvass begins.