SCHEDULE 1Provisions of the Act coming into force on 1 January 2007

14.  In relation to England and Wales and Scotland only—

(a)section 12 (Determinations by registration officers and objections);

(b)section 13(1) (Registration of voters with service qualification);

(c)section 16 (Review of polling places);

(d)section 17 (Minimum age);

(e)section 18 (Certain Commonwealth citizens);

(f)section 19 (Nomination procedures);

(g)section 20 (Omission of references to Maundy Thursday);

(h)Section 21 (Use of candidates’ common names);

(i)Section 22 (Candidate not to stand in more than one constituency);

(j)Section 23 (Offences as to false statements in nomination papers), to the extent that it is not already in force;

(k)Section 24 (Death of candidate);

(l)Section 26 (Return as to election expenses);

(m)Section 28 (Discretion to report on certain elections);

(n)section 30 (Ballot paper design);

(o)section 31(1) to (3) and (5) to (9) (Replacement of counterfoils);

(p)section 31(4), except to the extent that it relates to sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) of rule 37;

(q)section 36 (Translations etc. of certain documents);

(r)section 37 (Documents relating to postal voting);

(s)section 38(1) to (3) and (6) (Tendered votes);

(t)section 41(1) to (6), (8) and (9) (Control of documents after parliamentary election);

(u)section 45 (Marked postal voters list);

(v)section 46 (Returning officers: correction of procedural errors);

(w)section 47 (Miscellaneous amendments of the 1983 Act) for the purposes of the provisions specified in paragraph 14(bb)(iii) of this Schedule;

(x)section 66 (Details to appear on election and referendum material);

(y)section 69 (Encouraging electoral participation);

(z)section 73(1) and (2) (Abolition of common law incapacity: mental state);

(aa)section 74 (Miscellaneous amendments and repeals) for the purposes of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (bb)(iv) to (vi) and (cc) of this paragraph;

(bb)in Schedule 1—

(i)paragraphs 41 to 46;

(ii)paragraphs 49 to 52, and 54;

(iii)paragraphs 69, 70, 72 to 74, 76 to 81, 86 to 89, 91 to 94 and 96;

(iv)paragraph 103 and 113 to 115;

(v)paragraphs 105, 106, 108, 109, 128, 132 and 136;

(vi)paragraphs 129 to 131;

(cc)in Schedule 2, the entries relating to—

(i)the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695(1);

(ii)the Election Act 1707(2);

(iii)the Family Law Reform Act 1969(3);

(iv)the British Nationality Act 1981(4);

(v)sections 40(1), 81 and 119(2) and 202(1) of, and rule 2(1)(b), rule 6(3)(a), rule 19(2)(d), rule 29(3)(b), rule 43(1)(e), rule 45(1B)(b), rule 55 and the Appendix to the rules in Schedule 1 to, the 1983 Act;

(vi)section 77(9)(a) of, and Schedule 18 to, the 2000 Act(5);

(vii)paragraphs 85(2), (3) and (5) of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004(6).