Schedules

Schedule 2 U.K.Power to make regulations about registration, absent voting and other matters

9 U.K.After paragraph 8B insert—

“8BA (1) Provision requiring a registration officer in Great Britain to keep records of—

(a) applications made to the officer under sections 13BD and 13BE;

(b) documents issued by the officer under those sections.

(2) Provision requiring the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland to keep records of—

(a) applications made to the Chief Electoral Officer under section 13C;

(b) electoral identity cards issued under that section.

(3) Provision made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) may include provision about information to be shown in a record.

(4) Provision authorising or requiring a relevant registration officer—

(a) to supply a copy of a record kept by the officer by virtue of provision made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2), or

(b) to disclose information contained in such a record,

to such persons and for such purposes as may be prescribed.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4), “relevant registration officer” means—

(a) in relation to a record referred to in sub-paragraph (1), a registration officer in Great Britain;

(b) in relation to a record referred to in sub-paragraph (2), the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 67(1)

I2 Sch. 2 para. 9 in force at 27.8.2022 by S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)