Regulation 13

SCHEDULE 4SAPPLICATION WITH MODIFICATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THE 1983 AND 1985 ACTS FOR REGISTRATION OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY OVERSEAS ELECTORS

Commencement Information

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Provision appliedModification
PART I: THE 1983 ACT
Section 4(5) (attainers)(1)
Section 9 (register of electors)(2)

In subsection (1)(a) omit “for each constituency or part of a constituency”.

[F1In subsection (2) omit “Subject to section 9B(3) below,”.]

Omit subsection (2)(b).

Omit subsections (5) to (8).

[F2Section 10A (maintenance of registers: registration of electors), subsections (1)(a), (3), (3A), (4) and (9)]

[F3In subsection (3) after “register in question” insert “or by a person entitled to vote as an elector at an election to the European Parliament by virtue of section 8 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002”.

In subsection (4) for “Subsections (1) and (3) above” substitute “Subsections (1)(a) and (3) above”.

In subsection (4) omit paragraph (b).

In subsection (9) omit the definition of “resident”.]

Section 13 (publication of registers)(3)

For subsections (1) to (3) substitute:

“(1) Where a register under section 3 of the 1985 Act is in force, a revised version of it shall be published when a revised version of the registers of parliamentary and local government electors is published under this section as it has effect for the purposes of such registers.”.

Section 13A (alteration of registers)

[F4In subsection (1)(b) for “by virtue of any provision of this Part of this Act” substitute “by virtue of any provision of the Representation of the People Act 1985”.

In subsection (1)(c) omit “or 58”.

In subsection (2)(b) for “sections 13B(1) and 13BA(1)” substitute “section 13B(1)”.

For subsection (3) substitute:

(3) Subsection (2) above does not require a registration officer to issue a notice under that subsection in a case where (apart from this subsection) that subsection would require the notice to be issued—

(a)at the beginning of the month containing the date on which revised versions of the registers of parliamentary and local government electors are next due to be published in accordance with section 13(1) or (3) as it has effect for the purposes of such registers, or

(b)at the beginning of either of the two months preceding that containing the date on which revised versions of the registers of parliamentary and local government electors are next due to be published in accordance with section 13(1)(a) as it has effect for the purposes of such registers,

and in such a case the alteration in question shall be made in those revised versions of the registers.

In subsection (4) omit “or 13BA(3), (6) or (9)”.

In subsection (5) omit “or 13BA”.

In subsection (6) omit from “; and section 119 below shall apply” to the end.]

Section 13B (alteration of register: pending elections)For subsection (4) substitute:

“(4) This section applies to elections to the European Parliament.”

[F5Omit subsection (6).]

[F6Section 13AB (alteration of registers: interim publication dates)] [F7For subsection (4) substitute—

“(4) This section applies to elections to the European Parliament.”]

Section 50 (effect of misdescription)For paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) substitute “in the register”.
Section 52 (discharge of registration duties)(4)In subsections (1) and (4) after the word “Act” insert “and regulation 13 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001”.
Section 54 (payment of expenses of registration)(5)

In subsection (1) after the word “Act” in the first place where it occurs, insert “and regulation 13 of the Representation of the People Regulations 2001”.

Omit subsection (3)

Section 56 as applied by section 57 (registration appeals: (Scotland)(6) [F8In subsection (1) for paragraph (aa) substitute:

(aa)from any decision under section 2(2)(aa) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 of the registration officer that a person registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of a European Parliamentary overseas elector’s declaration was not entitled to be registered.

In subsection (1) omit paragraphs (ab) and (b).]

Section 63 (breach of official duty)(7)

In subsection (3)–

(a)

for paragraphs (a) to (d) substitute:

“(a)any registration officer,”; and

(b)

for the words from “relating to” to the end of the subsection substitute “relating to the registration of European Parliamentary overseas electors”.

PART II: THE 1985 ACT
Section 2 (registration of British citizens overseas)(8)In paragraph (a) of subsection (1) omit “constituency or” and in paragraph (b) after “of that” insert “part of the”
In paragraph (c) of subsection (2) for the words from “parliamentary” to the end of that paragraph, substitute “local government electors”.

In subsection (4) for “section 1” substitute “section 3”(9).

In subsection (7) omit “constituency or”.

In subsection (8) for “section 1(1)(a)” substitute “section 3(1)(a)”.

In section 12 (offences as to Declarations etc), subsections (1), (2) and (4)In subsection (1)(a) for the word the word “parliamentary” substitute “European Parliamentary”.

Textual Amendments

(1)

Section 4 was substituted by section 1(2) of the 2000 Act.

(2)

Section 9 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act

(3)

Sections 13, 13A and 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act.

(4)

Section 52 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

(5)

Section 54 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act.

(6)

Section 56 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act and Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act.

(7)

Section 63 was substituted by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act.

(8)

Section 2 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the 2000 Act.

(9)

Section 3 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the 2000 Act.