Reminder of the need for an anonymous elector’s document: transitional provisionE+W+S
26.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a registration officer must send a reminder to all qualifying anonymous electors registered in a register for which the registration officer is appointed no later than the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this regulation comes into force.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of a qualifying anonymous elector where, during the period described in paragraph (1)—
(a)the qualifying anonymous elector’s entry is removed from the register of electors in accordance with section 9C of the 1983 Act(1);
(b)the registration officer sends a reminder to the qualifying anonymous elector in accordance with regulation 25.
(3) In this regulation, a “qualifying anonymous elector” means a person who, on the day on which this regulation comes into force, has an anonymous entry in—
(a)a register of parliamentary electors,
(b)a register of local government electors in England, or
(c)a register of local government electors in Wales and that person is entitled to vote at a PCC election for a police area in Wales in accordance with section 52(1A) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 26 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)
Section 9C was inserted by section 10(1) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), and was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6).