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PART IIISREGISTRATION

INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTORSS

Power to require informationS

23.—(1) A registration officer may require any person to give information required for the purposes of that officer’s duties in maintaining registers of parliamentary and local government electors.

[F1(1A) A registration officer may not use the power conferred by paragraph (1) to require a person who has made an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD of the 1983 Act to provide information to assist the registration officer in determining, in connection with that application, whether the applicant is the person named in the application or is entitled to be registered.]

(2) If any person–

(a)fails to comply with F2...

F2(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

any such requisition of the registration officer, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.