The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014

This Statutory Instrument is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of SI 2013/3197, which it amends.

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 449

Representation Of The People

The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014

Made

27th February 2014

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Lord President of the Council makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11(3) and (5) of, and paragraphs 4 and 29 of Schedule 5 to, the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013(1).

In accordance with section 11(2) of that Act, a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Amendments of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2013

2.  The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2013(2) is amended as follows.

3.  In article 1 (citation, commencement, extent and interpretation), after “except for” insert “article 4A, which comes into force on 2nd June 2014, and”.

4.  After article 4 (time) insert—

“Applications for registration in England and Wales made between 2nd and 9th June 2014

4A.   Where a registration officer in England and Wales determines an application for registration made in the period starting with 2nd June 2014 and ending with 9th June 2014, the proviso in regulation 29(4) of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001(3) does not apply.”

5.  In article 6(2)(a) (confirmation of entitlement to remain registered), for “16th June” substitute “10th June”.

Signed by authority of the Lord President of the Council

Greg Clark

Minister of State

Cabinet Office

27th February 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3197), which contains transitional provisions relating to the introduction of individual electoral registration in Great Britain. The new system is expected to begin on 10th June 2014 in England and Wales.

Article 5 amends article 6 of the 2013 Order to allow the checking of entries on electoral registers in England and Wales, which will be carried out in order to see whether people with entries are entitled to remain registered, to begin on 10th June 2014 instead of 16th June 2014. As a consequence, article 3 amends the commencement provisions of the 2013 Order and article 4 inserts a new article 4A into the 2013 Order to disapply the period in which objections to an application for registration can be made, in the case of applications made in the week before 10th June 2014.

An overall impact assessment in relation to the individual electoral registration scheme is available on the Cabinet Office website at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/IER-Impact.

(1)

2013 c.6. Section 25(1) defines “the Minister” as the Lord President of the Council or the Secretary of State.

(2)

S.I. 2013/3197.

(3)

S.I. 2001/341, to which there is one relevant amending instrument, S.I. 2006/2910.