The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 No. 1451

Amendments to the Representation of the People Act 1983

4.  In section 9D (maintenance of registers: duty to conduct canvass in Great Britain)—

(a) in subsection (4), after “form” insert “or, except for the purposes of a register of local government electors in Scotland or Wales, one or more canvass communications”;

(b) in subsection (5)(a), after “form” insert “or communication”;

(c) after subsection (5)(a), insert—

“(aa) except for the purposes of a register of local government electors in Scotland or Wales, to obtain the information required by a canvass form,”;

(d) in subsection (5)(b), after “form” insert “or communication”;

(e) in subsection (5)(c), after “form” insert “or communication”.