4. After rule 11 insert—
12.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where a registration officer (“R”) for any part of an Assembly constituency is not the CRO for that constituency.
(2) As soon as practicable after 5pm on the sixth day before the day of the poll at an Authority election, R must send the CRO a copy of the lists R is required to keep in respect of that election under paragraphs 5 and 7(8) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (absent voters lists and proxy postal voters list)(1).
(3) R must, on a request made at any time, supply the CRO with a copy of the lists mentioned in paragraph (2).
(4) In relation to an Authority election, for the purposes of paragraph (2), “the sixth day before the day of the poll” is to be computed in the same way as a period of time mentioned in the timetable for that election(2).”
2000 c. 2; paragraph 5 was amended by paragraphs 22 and 137 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22); paragraph 7 was amended by sections 14 and 38 of, and paragraphs 23 and 137 of Schedule 1 to, that Act. Other amendments have been made to both paragraphs 5 and 7 but they are not relevant to these Rules.
The CMER LMER and MER all contain a rule governing the computation of periods of time for the purposes of the timetable at that election: see rule 4 of the CMER; rule 4 of the LMER; and rule 4 of the MER.