The Voter Identification Regulations 2022

Determination of identity document applications

11.—(1) A registration officer may refuse an identity document application where—

(a) the registration officer has required the applicant to provide additional evidence in accordance with regulation 7, and

(b) the applicant has failed or refused to comply with that requirement on or before the evidence submission date described in regulation 7(2)(a)(i).

(2) Except where an identity document application is refused in accordance with paragraph (1), the registration officer must—

(a) grant an identity document application if the registration officer is satisfied that the following conditions are met—

(i) conditions 1 and 2, and

(ii) either condition 3 or 4, or

(b) refuse the application if not so satisfied.

(3) Condition 1 is that the application meets the requirements set out in regulation 4(1) to (3).

(4) Condition 2 is that the applicant is the person named in the application.

(5) Condition 3 is that—

(a) the applicant is registered in a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain, or a register of local government electors in England, which is maintained by the registration officer, or

(b) the registration officer is required to enter the applicant in such a register in accordance with section 10ZC(1) of the 1983 Act.

(6) Condition 4 is that—

(a) either—

(i) the applicant is registered in a register of local government electors in Wales which is maintained by the registration officer, or

(ii) the registration officer is required to enter the applicant in that register in accordance with section 10ZC(1) of the 1983 Act, and

(b) the applicant is entitled to vote at an election of a police and crime commissioner for a police area in Wales in accordance with section 52(1A) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011(1), or will be so entitled on attaining the age of 18.

(1)

Section 52(1A) was inserted by section 8(8) of the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4).