F1SCHEDULE 6REGISTERING TO VOTE IN A BUSINESS REFERENDUM

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PART 3Requirements of registration

Evidence of age or nationality14

1

Where a business registration officer has doubts about a named voter’s age or nationality, the business registration officer may require that person to produce such evidence as is specified in sub-paragraph (2) for the purposes of compiling the business voting register.

2

The evidence which the business registration officer may require is as follows—

a

a birth certificate or a statutory declaration as to the person’s date of birth;

b

a certificate of naturalisation;

c

a statutory declaration that the person is a qualifying citizen.

3

If any fee is payable in connection with the making of a declaration for the purposes of this paragraph, the business registration officer must pay that fee and it shall be treated as part of that officer’s registration expenses within the meaning of section 54(1) of the 1983 Act as applied to these Regulations by virtue of Schedule 8.