SCHEDULE 4APPLICATION WITH MODIFICATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THE 1983 AND 1985 ACTS FOR REGISTRATION OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY OVERSEAS ELECTORS

Regulation 14

1 Provision applied

2 Modification

PART 1: THE 1983 ACT

Section 4(5) (attainers)124

Section 9 (register of electors)125

In subsection (1)(a) omit “for each constituency or part of a constituency”.

In subsection (2) omit “subject to section 9B(3) below”.

Omit subsection (2)(b).

Omit subsections (5) to (8).

Section 13 (publication of registers)126

For subsection (1) to (3) substitute:

1

Where a register under section 3 of the 1985 Act is in force, a revised version of it shall be published when a revised version of the registers of parliamentary and local government electors is published under this section as it has effect for the purposes of such registers

In subsection (5) omit the words “, 13B or 13BA”.

Section 13A (alteration of register)127

In subsection (2)(b) omit the words “(subject to sections 13B(1) and 13BA(1) below)”.

In subsection (3)(a) omit “or 3”.

In subsection (3)(b) for “section 13(1)(a)” substitute “section 13(1)”.

Omit subsection (4).

In subsection (5) omit “and section 13B or 13BA below”.

Section 50 (effect of misdescription)

For paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) substitute “in the register”.

Section 52 (discharge of registration duties)128

In subsections (1), (2) and (4) after the word “Act” insert “and regulation 14 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008.”

Section 54 (payment of expenses of registration)129

In subsection (1) after the word “Act” in the first place where it occurs, insert “and Regulation 14 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008”.

Omit subsection (3).

Section 58 (registration appeals: Northern Ireland)130

In subsection (4) omit “and 13BA”.

In subsection (5) for “,13A(2) or 13BA(6) or (9)” substitute “or 13A(2)”.

Section 63 (breach of official duty)131

In subsection (3)—

  1. a

    for paragraphs (a) to (d) substitute:

    a

    any registration officer;

  2. b

    for the words from “relating to” to the end of the subsection substitute “relating to the registration of European Parliamentary overseas electors”.

PART 2: THE 1985 ACT

Section 2 (registration of British citizens overseas)132

In subsection (1)(a) omit “constituency or”.

In paragraph (c) of subsection (2) for the words from “parliamentary” to the end of that paragraph, substitute “local electors”.

In subsection (4)(a) for “section 1” substitute “section 3”.

In subsection (7) for “any constituency or part of a constituency” substitute “the electoral region”.

In subsection (8) for “section 1(1)(a)” substitute “section 3(1)(a)”.

In section 12 (offences as to declarations etc), subsections (1), (2) and (4)

In subsection (1)(a) for word “parliamentary” substitute “European Parliamentary”.