The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001

Supply of free copies of register and list of overseas electors otherwise than on request

46.—(1) The registration officer shall supply, free of charge and on publication, one copy of—

(a) the revised version of the register under section 13(1) and (3) of the 1983 Act(1);

(b) any notice under sections 13A(2) and 13B(3) of that Act; and

(c) the list of overseas electors under regulation 45 above,

to the British Library, the Secretary of State and the Electoral Commission.

(2) The registration officer shall supply, free of charge and on publication, one copy of—

(a) every revised version of the register under section 13(1) and (3) of the 1983 Act; and

(b) every notice under sections 13A(2) and 13B(3) of that Act,

to the persons listed in paragraph (3) below.

(3) Those persons are—

(a) the returning officer for a non-metropolitan county;

(b) the persons or officers who, under subsections (2B) and (2C) of section 35 of the 1983 Act(2) are the returning officers at an election of members of the London Assembly and of the Mayor of London.

(4) As soon as practicable after the relevant event, the registration officer who is not the acting returning officer for a constituency wholly or partly in his registration area shall supply free of charge to that officer as many printed copies of—

(a) the latest revised version of the register under section 13(1) or section 13(3) of the 1983 Act, as the case may be;

(b) any notice under sections 13A(2) and 13B(3) of that Act relating to that version of the register, and

(c) the most recently published list of overseas electors under regulation 45 above,

as the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the forthcoming parliamentary election in his constituency.

(5) In paragraph (4) above—

(a) “relevant event” means—

(i) the announcement of Her Majesty’s intention to dissolve Parliament, or

(ii) the occurrence of a vacancy in the relevant constituency; and

(b) the duty to supply as many printed copies of the register and the list of overseas electors as the returning officer may reasonably require includes a duty to supply one copy of each in data form.

(6) In paragraphs (1) and (2) above the duty to supply one copy of the register and, where relevant, of the list of overseas electors, means—

(a) in the case of the British Library, a duty to supply a printed copy of each; and

(b) in any other case, a duty to supply a copy of each in data form unless, prior to publication, the recipient has requested in writing a copy in printed form.

(1)

Sections 13 to 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act.

(2)

Subsections (2B) and (2C) of section 35 were inserted by Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).