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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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.