PART IIIREGISTRATION
Information about electors
Reminders to electors registered pursuant to a declaration25.
(1)
This regulation applies in respect of a person registered in pursuance of—
(a)
a service declaration;
(b)
a declaration of local connection; and
(c)
an overseas elector’s declaration.
(2)
Subject to paragraph (4) below, the registration officer shall, during the relevant period, send to a person to whom this regulation applies a reminder of the need to make a fresh declaration if he wishes to remain registered as an elector in pursuance of such a declaration.
F1(3)
In paragraph (2) “the relevant period” means—
(a)
except in cases to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, the period beginning nine months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending ten months after that date, and
(b)
F2in the case of a person mentioned in section 14(1)(a) or (d) of the 1983 Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners) who is registered in pursuance of a service declaration, the period beginning 57 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 58 months after that date.
(4)
Paragraph (2) above does not apply in respect of a person to whom this regulation applies where—
(a)
the registration officer has already received from that person a fresh declaration, or
(b)
information which the registration officer has received indicates that that person is no longer entitled to make the relevant declaration.