The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

Effect of registers E+W+S

17.—(1) Any entry in the register of electors, if it gives a date as that on which the person named will attain voting age, shall for any purpose of this Part relating to him as elector be conclusive that until the date given in the entry he is not of voting age nor entitled to be treated as an elector except for the purposes of an election at which the day fixed for the poll is that or a later date.

[F1 (1A) Paragraph (1) applies to an entry in the record of anonymous entries as it applies to an entry in the register of electors.]

(2) A person whose registration as an elector or entry in the list of proxies entitles him to vote shall not be excluded from voting on any of the following grounds: but this shall not prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or affect his liability to any penalty for voting.

The grounds are—

(a) that he is not of voting age;

[F2 (b) that he does not or did not at any particular time satisfy any requirement for voting which relates to citizenship;]

[F3 (c) that he is or was at any particular time otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.]

[F4 (3) In the case of the persons referred to in paragraph (4), for “at any particular time” in each of paragraph (2)(b) and (c), substitute “on the relevant date or the date of his appointment (as the case may be).]

[F5 (4) “The relevant date” in paragraph (3)—

(a) in the case of a Gibraltar elector, is the date on which an application for registration is made or treated as having been made by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 4;

(b) in the case of a person registered as an elector by virtue of being a relevant citizen of the Union, is the date which is the relevant date for the purposes of regulation 4 of the 2001 Franchise Regulations;

(c) in the case of a peer entitled to vote by virtue of section 3 of the 1985 Act, is the date which is the relevant date for the purposes of that section.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 17(1A) inserted (30.1.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/186), regs. 1(2), 12(2)

F2 Reg. 17(2)(b) substituted (3.3.2015) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/459), regs. 1(2), 3(a)

F3 Reg. 17(2)(c) substituted (3.3.2015) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/459), regs. 1(2), 3(b)

F4 Reg. 17(3) substituted (3.3.2015) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/459), regs. 1(2), 3(c)

F5 Reg. 17(4) substituted (3.3.2015) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/459), regs. 1(2), 3(d)