Effect of register of electors
4.—(1) Any entry in the register of electors, if it gives a date as that on which the person named will attain voting age, is conclusive for any purpose of this Part relating to that person as elector that until the date given in the entry the person is not of voting age nor entitled to be treated as an elector except for the purposes of a PCC election at which the day fixed for the poll is that or a later date.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to an entry in the record of anonymous entries as it applies to an entry in the register of electors.
(3) A person registered in the register of electors, or entered in the list of proxies, is not excluded from voting at a PCC election on any of the grounds specified in paragraph (4): but this does not prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or affect the person’s liability to any penalty for voting.
(4) The grounds are—
(a)that the person is not of voting age;
(b)that the person is not, or, on the relevant date or the date of the person’s appointment as proxy (as the case may be), was not—
(i)a Commonwealth citizen,
(ii)a citizen of the Republic of Ireland,
(iii)a relevant citizen of the Union;
(c)that the person is, or, on the relevant date or the date of the person’s appointment as proxy (as the case may be), was, otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.
(5) In paragraph (4) “the relevant date” means—
(a)in relation to a person registered in the register of electors as published in accordance with section 13(1) of the 1983 Act, the 15th October immediately preceding the date of publication of the register;
(b)in relation to any other person registered in the register of electors, the relevant date for the purposes of section 4 of the 1983 Act.