Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013

PART 1Individual electoral registration in Great Britain

1Individual registration

2Applications for registration and verification of entitlement etc

3Proxies to be registered electors

4Annual canvass

5Invitations to register

6Amendment of Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986

7Power to amend or abolish the annual canvass

8Consulting Electoral Commission about proposals under section 7

9Piloting of changes to the annual canvass

10Piloting registration provisions

11Orders under Part 1

12Interpretation of Part 1

13Amendments and transitional provision

PART 2Administration and conduct of elections etc

14Extension of timetable for parliamentary elections

15Timing of parish and community council elections in England and Wales

16Alteration of electoral registers: pending elections

17Review of polling districts and places in Great Britain

18Inadequate performance of returning officer: reduction of charges

19Voters waiting at polling station at close of poll

20Use of emblems on ballot papers

21Community support officers

22Notification of rejected postal vote

23Repeal of powers to establish co-ordinated on-line record of electors

PART 3Final provisions

24Financial provisions

25Meaning of “the Minister” etc

SCHEDULE 1Register of electors: alterations and removal

1After section 10ZC of the Representation of the People Act...

2(1) Registration officers in Great Britain must have regard to...

3In section 13A(1)(d) of the Representation of the People Act...

SCHEDULE 2Sharing and checking information etc

1Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 1983...

2After paragraph 1 insert— (1) Provision authorising or requiring a person to disclose information...

3After paragraph 8B (inserted by section 2) insert— (1) Provision requiring the retention or disposal, or otherwise regulating...

4In paragraph 13, after sub-paragraph (1ZA) insert—

5In section 53 of the Representation of the People Act...

SCHEDULE 3Civil penalty for failing to make application when required by registration officer

In the Representation of the People Act 1983, before Schedule...

SCHEDULE 4Amendments to do with Part 1

Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)

1The Representation of the People Act 1983 is amended as...

2In section 7 (residence: patients in mental hospitals who are...

3In section 7A (residence: persons remanded in custody etc), in...

4In section 7C (effect of declaration of local connection), in...

5In section 9 (registers of electors), in subsection (2)—

6(1) Section 9A (registration officers: duty to take necessary steps)...

7(1) Section 9B (anonymous registration) is amended as follows.

8(1) Section 9C (removal of anonymous entries) is amended as...

9(1) Section 10 (maintenance of the registers: duty to conduct...

10(1) Section 10A (maintenance of the registers: registration of electors)...

11(1) Section 13 (publication of registers) is amended as follows....

12(1) Section 13A (alteration of registers) is amended as follows....

13In section 13B (alteration of registers in Great Britain: pending...

14Omit section 13BB (election falling within canvass period).

15In section 15 (service declaration), in subsection (2), after paragraph...

16(1) Section 49 (effect of registers) is amended as follows....

17In section 54(1) (payment of expenses of registration), after “under...

18In section 56(1) (registration appeals: England and Wales), for paragraphs...

19In section 62 (offences as to declarations), in subsection (1A),...

20(1) Schedule 2 (provisions which may be contained in regulations...

Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)

21In section 2 of the Representation of the People Act...

Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2)

22In Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act...

Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)

23In Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (amendments),...

Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 (c. 12)

24In the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 the following...

SCHEDULE 5Transitional provision to do with Part 1

PART 1Introduction

Applications for registration etc made before commencement

1The amendments made by Part 1 of this Act do...

Meaning of “commencement date”

2In this Schedule “commencement date” means the date appointed for...

Meaning of “new application for registration” and “successful” new application

3(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person (“P”)...

Checking of old entries and meaning of “confirmation” of entitlement to remain registered

4(1) The Minister may by order require a registration officer...

PART 2Removal of existing registrations by end of the third new canvass

Removal of certain existing registrations after the first new canvass

5(1) A registration officer in Great Britain must, immediately before...

Removal of existing registrations after the third new canvass

6A registration officer in Great Britain must, immediately before the...

This Part not to apply to persons within Part 5 or 6 below

7In this Part of this Schedule, references to a person...

PART 3Encouraging new applications

Registration officers to invite applications in year of first new canvass from those with existing registrations

8(1) A registration officer in Great Britain must, within a...

Powers to delay canvasses and timing of canvasses

9(1) The Minister may by order— (a) postpone any canvass...

Canvass forms need not be supplied to addresses to which invitations supplied

10(1) At the first new canvass, a registration officer is...

Registration officers to invite applications in year of second new canvass from those with existing registrations

11(1) A registration officer in Great Britain must, on or...

Invitations under paragraph 8 or 11 and power to require application following invitation

12The Minister may by order make provision in connection with...

13(1) A registration officer who gives a person an invitation...

Power to require additional information on poll cards at 2014 European Parliamentary election

14Regulations under section 7(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act...

Certain provisions of this Part not to apply to persons within Part 5 or 6 below

15In this Part of this Schedule, references to a person...

PART 4Absent voting

Applicant for absent vote must have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed

16(1) For the purposes of an absent voting application made...

Entitlement to absent vote ceases after first new canvass if no successful new application for registration or confirmation of registration

17(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies if, on the day on which...

Proxies to have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed

18A person is to be regarded as registered in a...

Proxy for existing absent voter need not have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed until after first new canvass

19(1) The amendment made by section 3 (read with paragraph...

PART 5Persons with existing registrations by virtue of declarations etc

Meaning of “relevant person”

20(1) In this Part of this Schedule “relevant person” means...

Relevant person's first renewal of registration after 3-month transitional period: successful new application required

21(1) On the first occasion after the transitional period on...

Application for absent vote before first renewal of registration after 3-month transitional period: relevant person need not have made successful new application for registration

22(1) An absent voting application made by a relevant person...

Proxy for relevant person need not have made successful new application for registration until relevant person's first successful new application for registration

23(1) The amendment made by section 3 of this Act...

PART 6Persons with existing registrations by virtue of section 7(2) or 7A(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1983

Meaning of “relevant person”

24In this Part of this Schedule “relevant person” means a...

Amendments not to apply to application made by relevant person before first renewal of registration after 3-month transitional period

25(1) The amendments made by Part 1 of this Act...

Application for absent vote before first renewal of registration after 3-month transitional period: relevant person need not have made successful new application for registration

26(1) An absent voting application made by a relevant person...

Proxy for relevant person need not have made successful new application for registration until relevant person's first successful new application for registration

27(1) The amendment made by section 3 of this Act...

PART 7Supplementary

Power to bring forward effect of paragraph 6

28(1) The Minister may by order provide for paragraph 6...

Power to make supplementary provision

29The Minister may by order make provision for supplementing, or...

Interpretation of this Schedule

30(1) In this Schedule— “the first new canvass” means the...

Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013

2013 c. 6

An Act to make provision about the registration of electors and the administration and conduct of elections; and to amend section 3(2)(a) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.

[31st January 2013]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—C1 C2 C3 C4

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1

Act functions transferred (22.6.2015) by The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1376), arts. 1(2), 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 9)

C2

Act functions transferred (9.11.2016) by The Transfer of Functions (Elections, Referendums, Third Sector and Information) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/997), arts. 1(2), 3(1), Sch. 1(s) (with arts. 3(2), 6, 12)

C3

Act functions transferred (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 45, Sch. 1 para. 7

C4

Act: functions cease to be exercisable concurrently (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), arts. 1(2), 9, Sch. 1(n) (with arts. 11, 12)