The European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001

Registration officers

5.—(1) The officer who—

(a) under subsections (2) to (4) of section 8 of the 1983 Act(1) is the registration officer for any of the areas referred to in those subsections for the purposes of that Act; and

(b) under the provision substituted by the Schedule to the Isles of Scilly Order 1978(2) is the registration officer for the Isles of Scilly for those purposes,

shall be the registration officer for the area in question for the purposes of the registration of relevant citizens of the Union as European Parliamentary electors.

(2) Each registration officer shall maintain a register of any person or persons entitled to be registered under regulation 4 above.

(3) Such a register shall, so far as practicable, be combined with—

(a) the registers of parliamentary and local government electors, and

(b) any register of peers kept under section 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1985(3);

and the names of persons registered under this regulation shall be marked to indicate that fact.

(1)

Section 8 was amended by Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and by Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39).

(2)

S.I. 1978/1844.

(3)

1985 c. 50; section 3 was substituted by Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2).