Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 U.K. Transitional provision to do with Part 1

PART 3 U.K. Encouraging new applications

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

8 (1) A registration officer in Great Britain must, within a prescribed period, give an invitation to make a new application for registration in a register maintained by the officer to each person who— U.K.

(a) has an entry in the register but has not had his or her entitlement to remain registered confirmed, and

(b) has not made a new application for registration.

(2) But the officer need not give an invitation at a time when the officer has reason to believe, from records available to the officer, that the person is no longer resident at the address to which the entry relates.

(3) The period prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph must begin in the year in which the first new canvass begins.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 5 para. 8 in force at 10.6.2014 for E.W. and 19.9.2014 for S. by S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m)

I2 Sch. 5 para. 8 in force at 15.9.2014 for N.I. by S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(m)