(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Policy Development Grants Scheme 2006, set out in the Schedule to the Elections (Policy Development Grants Scheme) Order 2006, to make provision for the year running from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2015.
As a consequence of the introduction of individual electoral registration, the annual canvass in Great Britain, which would normally have concluded with the publication of revised electoral registers by 1st December 2013, was postponed (by the Electoral Registration (Postponement of 2013 Annual Canvass) Order 2013, S.I. 2013/794). The figures for the number of people on the register on 1st December 2013 would, but for this Order, be used to determine the appropriate allocations of policy development grants. As revised registers were not published by that date (except for in Northern Ireland), the Order substitutes the numbers of electors on the register on the relevant date of publication of the revised registers.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.