Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868

35 New registers to be made up annually. S

On the first, or when the first is on a Sunday, on the second day of December in each year, the registrar shall proceed to prepare, in the form of schedule (F.) to this Act annexed, a new alphabetical register for the year to commence on the first day of January next ensuing, which new register he shall make up by transferring to it from that in force at the time the names, designations, and addresses (with such corrections as he may consider necessary) of all members not known to be dead, and by transferring to it from the registration book the names, designations, qualifications, and ordinary places of residence of all persons who shall have paid the registration fee since the day of commencing to make up the register of the preceding year, and who are not known to have died since making payment; and such new register shall be completed . . . F1 and shall thereafter be revised by the registrar . . . F1 and shall then be authenticated by the Vice-Chancellor on or before the thirty-first day of December of the same year; and such revision and authentication shall be carried out in the same way as is provided in regard to the first register directed to be made up under this Act; and the new register shall have the same effect for the year to which it applies as it is herein-before provided that the said first register shall have for the period between the twenty-sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and shall be subject in the same way as the said first register to alteration by the University Court on appeal taken either against undue insertion or against undue omission of names.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)