The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

[F1 Record of anonymous entries N.I.

53A.— (1) The registration officer must keep a record of anonymous entries.

(2) The registration officer must enter in the record each person (“P”) who is entered in the register with an anonymous entry.

(3) The entry in the record must contain the following particulars—

(a) P’s full name;

(b) P’s electoral number;

(c) P’s qualifying address;

(d) where P has given in his application for an anonymous entry an address other than his qualifying address to which correspondence should be sent, that address;

(e) the date on which P’s entitlement to remain registered anonymously will terminate under section 9C(1A) of the 1983 Act (in the absence of a further application under section 9B of that Act).

(4) Where P’s application to vote by post or by proxy is granted, the registration officer must also enter in the record the address to which the postal ballot paper is to be sent as given in his application under section 6(6) or 9(12) of the 1985 Act, or paragraph 1(6) or 4(11) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, as the case may be.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 53A-53D inserted (15.9.2014) by The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1808), regs. 1(1), 15

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reg. 53A applied (with modifications) (15.9.2014) by S.I. 2001/1184, reg. 9, Sch. Pt. 2 (as inserted by S.I. 2014/1803, regs. 1(1), 8(3)(b))