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4.—(1) A person is entitled to be registered in the register of relevant citizens of the Union entitled to vote at European Parliamentary elections (maintained under regulation 5(2) below) for part of an electoral region if on the relevant date he—
(a)is resident in that part of the region;
(b)is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart);
(c)is a relevant citizen of the Union; and
(d)is of voting age;
and the registration officer has received in respect of him an application and declaration made in accordance with regulation 6(1) and (2) below.
(2) A person is not entitled to be registered in the register maintained under regulation 5(2) below for the electoral region of Northern Ireland unless, in addition to complying with paragraph (1) above, he has been resident in Northern Ireland during the whole of the period of three months ending on the relevant date.
(3) The preceding provisions have effect subject to—
(a)any enactment imposing a disqualification for registration as a European Parliamentary elector, and
(b)compliance with the requirements of these Regulations and any provision applied by these Regulations.
(4) A person otherwise qualified is (despite paragraph (1)(d) above) entitled to be registered in a register maintained under regulation 5(2) below if he will attain voting age before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the 1st December next following the relevant date, but—
(a)his entry in the register shall give the date on which he will attain that age; and
(b)until the date given in the entry, he shall not by virtue of the entry be treated as an elector for any purposes other than those of an election the date of the poll for which is the date so given or any later date.
(5) In this regulation—
“enactment" includes—
any provision of an Act, and
any provision of subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978 M1); and
“the relevant date" means the date on which the application and declaration required by regulation 6(1) and (2) below were made.
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