Section 2.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 1 applied (9.7.2003) by The Local and European Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Citizens of Accession States) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1557), reg. 4 (subject to reg. 2)
Section 3(1) and (2) (disfranchisement of offenders in prison, etc.).
[F1Section 3A(1) and (4) to (7) (disfranchisement of offenders detained in mental hospitals).]
Textual Amendments
F1Entries in Sch. 1 Pt. I inserted (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(7)(8); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
[F2Section 4(2) to (6) (entitlement to be registered).]
Textual Amendments
F2Entries in Sch. 1 Pt. I substituted (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 3(3)-(6); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
[F2Sections 5 and 6 (residence (general) and residence of merchant seamen).
Sections 7 to 7C (residence of mental patients, and of persons remanded in custody, and declarations of local connection).]
[F2Sections 9, 10, 10A and 13 to 13B (preparation, publication and alteration of registers).]
Sections 14 to 17 (service qualifications and service declarations).
Sections 49 and 50 (effect of registers and of misdescription).
[F2Section 53 and, in Schedule 2, paragraphs 1(2) to (5), 3, 3A, 4 to 11A and 13 (regulations as to registration).]
Section 54(2) to (4) (expenses of registration).
Section 56(1) and (3) to (5) (registration appeals).
[F1Section 58(2) (registration appeals: Northern Ireland).]
Section 59 (supplemental provisions as to members of forces, etc.).
Section 62 (offences as to declarations).
[F1Section 180A (evidence by certificate of electoral registration).]
Section 201 (regulations) and, in section 202(1), [F3the definitions of “dwelling”, “prescribed” and “qualifying address”].
Textual Amendments
F3Words in entry in Sch. 1 Pt. I substituted (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 3(9); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
1N.I.References to local government elections are to be read as references to local elections.
2N.I.References to section 2 (local government electors in Great Britain) are to be read as references to section 1 of this Act and references to Part I (Parliamentary and local government franchise and its exercise) include section 1 of this Act.
3N.I.References to the registration officer are to be read as references to the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland.
4N.I.References to local government electors are to be read as references to local electors.
5N.I.References to legal incapacity are to legal incapacity within the meaning of this Act.
6N.I.References to any other provision mentioned in Part I of this Schedule are to that provision as modified by this Part.
[F47(1)In section 4(2)—N.I.
(a)for “parliamentary electors for any constituency” substitute “local electors for any district electoral area”; and
(b)for “subsection (1) above,” substitute “subsection (3) below,”.
(2)In section 4(4)(a), the reference to any enactment includes an enactment comprised in Northern Ireland legislation.]
Textual Amendments
F4Sch. 1 Pt. II paras. 7, 7A substituted for para. 7 (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 4(2); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
[F57AN.I.In section 7B references to the United Kingdom are to be read as references to Northern Ireland.]
Textual Amendments
F5Sch. 1 Pt. II paras. 7, 7A substituted for para. 7 (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 4(2); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
8N.I.In section 9, for subsection (1)(b) there is substituted—
“(b)a register of local electors for each district.”
Prospective
F68AN.I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F6Sch. 1 para. 8A omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 16(2)(a), 28; S.I. 2014/2613, art. 2(2)(c)
[F79In section 12, the reference in subsection (2)(b) to any enactment includes an enactment comprised in Northern Ireland legislation.]
Textual Amendments
F7Sch. 1 Pt. II paras. 9-11 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 8, 15, Sch. 3 para. 4(3), Sch. 7 Pt. III; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
[F810In section 13—
(a)in subsection (1) “or, in Northern Ireland, of parliamentary electors” is omitted,
(b)in subsection (2) “parliamentary” is omitted, and
(c)in subsection (4) the reference to the Representation of the People Acts includes section 1 of this Act.]
Textual Amendments
F8Sch. 1 Pt. II paras. 9-11 repealed (29.1.2001 for specifed purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 8, 15, 17(3) Sch. 3 para. 4(3), Sch. 7 Pt. III; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
[F911In section 14, the reference in subsection (2) to section 1(2) includes section 1(1)(a) of this Act.]
Textual Amendments
F9Sch. 1 Pt. II paras. 9-11 repealed (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 2, ss. 8, 15, 17(3), Sch. 3 para. 4(3), Sch. 7 Pt. III; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(2)
12N.I.In section 49—
(a)in subsection (2), in paragraph (b) the reference to a local government area is to be read as a reference to a district and at the end of that subsection there is inserted—
“(c)whether or not a person registered as an elector in a district was during the whole of the period of three months ending on the qualifying date resident in Northern Ireland”, and
(b)in subsection (5) “or entered in the list of proxies” is omitted.
13N.I.In section 50, for paragraph (c) there is substituted—
“(c)in any list, notice or other document required for the purposes of this Part of this Act”.
14N.I.In section 53—
[F10(a)in subsection (1)(a) omit the words from “and any special lists” to the end,
(b)for subsection (1)(b) substitute—
“(b)with respect to—
(i)the procedure to be followed in the preparation of the register, and
(ii)the place and manner of its publication; and;”.]
(c)in subsection (1)(c) “or to voting by post or proxy” is omitted.
Textual Amendments
F10Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 14(a)(b) substituted (29.1.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 4(4); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)
15N.I.In section 54, in subsections (3) and (4) paragraph (a) is omitted.
16In section 56—
(a)subsection (1)(b), and
(b)in subsection (4) the words from the beginning to “and”,
are omitted.
17N.I.In section 59, in subsection (3)(a) the words from “and of” to the end are omitted.
18N.I.In Schedule 2—
(a)in paragraph 5(2) “or with his appointment as a proxy”,
(b)paragraph 5A, and
(c)in paragraph 13(1)(a) “or paragraph 2”,
are omitted.