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[F13C(1)Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer conducting a canvass [F2for the purposes of a register of local government electors in [F3Scotland [F4or] Wales]] to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining information where no response is received in respect of a particular address.U.K.
[F5(1A)Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer conducting a canvass for the purposes of a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain, or a register of local government electors in England [F6or in Scotland] [F7or in Wales]—
(a)to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining any information that a registration officer may or must require persons to give by virtue of regulations under paragraph 1B(1) in respect of a particular address,
(b)to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining information where no response is received in respect of a particular address.]
(2)Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer in Great Britain to take specified steps to encourage a person to make an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD in response to an invitation to do so made by the officer.
(3)Examples of the steps that a registration officer may be authorised or required to take under sub-paragraph (1)[F8, (1A)] or (2) include writing to the person or visiting the person's address to speak to the person.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 3C inserted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), s. 27(1), Sch. 4 para. 20(5) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(l)
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) substituted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(a)
F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) omitted (S.) (3.3.2020) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/62), arts. 1(1), 5(a)
F4Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) omitted (E.W.) (22.1.2020) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/50), regs. 2, 6(a)
F5Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(b)
F6Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (S.) (3.3.2020) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/62), arts. 1(1), 5(b)
F7Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (E.W.) (22.1.2020) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/50), regs. 2, 6(b)
F8Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(3) inserted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(c)
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