The Representation of the People and Recall Petition (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Introductory

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and extent

3. PART 2 Amendments relating to Parliamentary elections

   1. 2. Introductory

   2. 3. Applications for electoral identity card: notification and appeal

   3. 4. Retention of entries on the register following a canvass

   4. 5. Removal of redundant references to the Police Information Technology Organisation

   5. 6. Applications for the appointment of a proxy

   6. 7. Applications for postal vote where ballot papers are to be sent to a different address

   7. 8. In regulation 62 (grant or refusal of applications), at the...

   8. 9. Supply of date of birth lists to police and pursuant to a court order

   9. 10. Forms used in Parliamentary elections

   10. 11. Transitional provision relating to proxy paper form

4. PART 3 Amendments relating to recall petitions

   1. 12. Introductory

   2. 13. Extent of certain amendments previously made to the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016

   3. 14. Date of birth lists

   4. 15. Petition assistants: restriction on resolving doubts as to identity

   5. 16. Private areas for inspection of identity documents

   6. 17. Questions to be put to persons signing the petition

   7. 18. Signing procedure

   8. 19. Signing sheets endorsed by petition clerk

   9. 20. Tendered signing sheets

   10. 21. Refusal to deliver signing sheet

   11. 22. Procedure on close of petition

5. PART 4 Amendments relating to Assembly elections

   1. 23. Supply of date of birth lists used in Assembly elections

6. Signature

7. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Enabling Powers

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Form A

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Form B

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Form E

8. Explanatory Note