The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1520

Representation Of The People

The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2015

Made

15th July 2015

Laid before Parliament

16th July 2015

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by sections 13(2) and 25(1) of, and paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 5 to, the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013(1).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 and comes into force on 6th August 2015.

2.  This Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Removal of existing registrations after the second new canvass

3.  Paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 has effect as if the reference to the third new canvass were a reference to the second new canvass.

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

John Penrose

Minister for Constitutional Reform

Cabinet Office

15th July 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes transitional provision relating to the introduction of individual electoral registration in Great Britain. It is made under Schedule 5 to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013. It brings forward the effect of paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to that Act. That paragraph 6 requires registration officers, immediately before the publication of a register following the third new canvass, to remove the entry of any person who has neither had his or her entitlement to remain registered as an elector confirmed nor has made a successful new application for registration in the register. The effect of the Order is to require registration officers to remove those entries immediately before publication of a register following the second new canvass, instead of the third new canvass.

An overall impact assessment in relation to the individual electoral registration scheme is available on the Cabinet Office website at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/IER-Impact.

(1)

2013 c. 6. Section 25 was amended by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Order 2015 (S. I. 2015/1376) and under article 3 of that Order this power is exercisable concurrently by the Secretary of State and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.