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The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007

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Requiring personal identifiers from existing absent voters

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1.—(1) A registration officer must, by 7th February 2007, send a notice in writing to every person who has on 1st February 2007 an entry as an absent elector or postal proxy in his absent voting records kept in accordance with the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003.

(2) The notice must require the absent elector or postal proxy (as the case may be) to provide the registration officer within 42 days with a specimen of his signature and his date of birth (“the required personal identifiers”) in accordance with this Schedule.

(3) The notice must be sent by the registration officer to the current or last known address of the absent elector or postal proxy (as the case may be).

(4) Where a notice is sent by post, the registration officer may use—

(a)a universal service provider; or

(b)a commercial delivery firm,

and postage shall be prepaid on any such notice sent by post.

(5) Any notice must be accompanied by a reply envelope addressed to the registration officer and, in the case of any notice sent to an address within the United Kingdom, return postage shall be prepaid.

(6) Where a registration officer has been provided with the required personal identifiers by an applicant for an absent vote under the Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment)(No. 2) Regulations 2006(1) or the Absent Voting (Transitional Provisions)(England and Wales) Regulations 2006(2) before the date specified in the notice in accordance with paragraph 2(2)(d), he may use them for the purposes of Assembly elections and enter them in his records kept in accordance with article 12(13)(3).

(3)

The Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment)(No. 2) Regulations 2006 apply to new applicants for absent votes, and the Absent Voting (Transitional Provisions)(England and Wales) Regulations 2006 to existing absent voters for parliamentary and local government elections after 1st January 2007.

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