Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Act 2013

General

11 Power to make supplementary etc. provision and modifications

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by order make such supplementary, incidental or consequential provision as they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act.

(2) The power in subsection (1) includes power to make provision in consequence of, or in connection with—

(a) any provision made, or proposed to be made, in an Act of the Scottish Parliament for the holding of an independence referendum,

(b) any modification, or proposed modification, of any enactment relating to the registration of electors for the purposes of local government elections in Scotland.

(3) An order under subsection (1) may—

(a) modify any enactment (including this Act),

(b) apply any provision of any enactment (either with or without modifications),

(c) include supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitory or transitional provision or savings.

(4) An order under subsection (1) is subject to the affirmative procedure.

12 Interpretation

(1) In this Act—

• “the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983,

• “anonymous entry” in relation to the register of young voters is to be construed in accordance with section 9B of the 1983 Act, and “record of anonymous entries” means the record prepared under regulation 45A of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001/497),

• “applied enactment” means an enactment as applied for the purposes of this Act by virtue of section 6(1),

• “area”, in relation to a registration officer, means the area for which the officer acts in relation to the registration of local government electors,

• “declaration of local connection” means a declaration under section 7B of the 1983 Act,

• “local government election” has the meaning given in section 204(1) of the 1983 Act,

• “registration officer” means a registration officer appointed under section 8(3) of the 1983 Act,

• “relevant citizen of the European Union” means a citizen of the Union who is not a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland,

• “service declaration” means a declaration under section 15 of the 1983 Act.

(2) In this Act, a reference to a provision of the 1983 Act that is applied for the purposes of this Act by virtue of section 6(1) is a reference to that provision as so applied.

13 Commencement

(1) This Act comes into force on the day after Royal Assent.

(2) Despite subsection (1), no application for registration in the register of young voters may be made before 1 October 2013.

14 Repeal

This Act ceases to have effect on 1 January 2015.

15 Short title

The short title of this Act is the Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Act 2013.