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(6) Each person supplied with a copy of the record under this regulation must take proper precautions for its safe custody.
45F.—(1) Where a registration officer enters a person in the record of anonymous entries, he must issue to that person a certificate of anonymous registration.
(2) A certificate of anonymous registration must be in writing and signed by the registration officer.
(3) A certificate of anonymous registration must state–
(a) the name of the area for which the registration officer acts;
(b) the name, electoral number and qualifying address of the person who has the anonymous entry;
(c) the date on which the anonymous entry took effect;
(d) that unless a fresh application for an anonymous entry is made, the entitlement to remain registered anonymously will terminate no later than at the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the date stated in accordance with sub paragraph (c).
45G. The evidence prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 2A to the 1983 Act(35) is a certificate of anonymous registration.”.
19.—(1) Regulation 51B(36) is amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 51B(1) insert–
“(1A) Paragraph (1) does not apply where an applicant has, or has applied for, an anonymous entry.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (2).
20.—(1) Regulation 55(37) is amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 55(1) insert–
“(1A) This regulation does not apply where the applicant has an anonymous entry.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (4).
21.—(1) Regulation 72(38) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (7) insert at the beginning “Subject to paragraph (8),”.
(3) After paragraph (7) insert–
“(8) Where a person has an anonymous entry in the register, the items specified in paragraph (7) must be sent (as the case may be) to the address to which postal ballot papers should be sent–
(a) as shown in the record kept under paragraph 3(4) or 7(6) of Schedule 4(39); or
(b) as given in pursuance of an application made under paragraph 4(1) or 7(4)(b) of Schedule 4(40).”.
22. At the end of each of regulations 77(8)(a) and 78(4)(a)(41) insert “(or, in the case of an elector who has an anonymous entry, his electoral number alone)”.
23. After regulation 93(2)(42) insert–
“(2A) The edited register shall omit all anonymous entries in the register, and any information relating to them.”.
24.—(1) In regulation 5, after “notice” insert “, representation”.
(2) In regulation 6(1), after “notice” insert “, representation”.
(3) In regulation 7(5)(b), after “13B(3)” insert “, (3B) or (3D)”(43).
(4) After regulation 32 insert–
32A.—(1) For the purposes of section 13B(3C) of the 1983 Act a representation may be made orally or in writing.
(2) Where a representation is made in a polling station to a presiding officer, the presiding officer must as soon as practicable communicate that representation to the relevant registration officer.”.
25.—(1) Regulation 36(44) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) after “13B(3)” insert “, (3B) or (3D)”.
(3) After paragraph (2) insert–
“(3) For the purposes of section 13B(3A) and (3C) of the 1983 Act the prescribed time on the day of the poll is 9 p.m..”.
26. After regulation 36 insert the following–
36A.—(1) Where a notice is issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act on the day of the poll, the registration officer must take reasonable steps to ensure that the notice comes to the attention of the relevant presiding officer.
(2) Such steps may include communicating the notice to the presiding officer by telephone.
(3) Where a notice issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act is communicated to a presiding officer by telephone, the presiding officer must make a written record of that notice.”.
27. In each of regulations 92(1)(b), 97(1)(b) and (3)(b), 98(1)(b), 99(1)(b), 100(2)(b), 101(1)(b), 108A(1)(b), 110(1)(b) and (7), and 111(1) and (6)(b) after “13B(3)” insert “, (3B) or (3D)”(45).
28.—(1) After regulation 63 insert–
63A.—(1) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer under rule 19A(46) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act shall be in Form L1.
(2) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer for the purposes of rules 29(3)(e), 37(1)(b) and 37(1)(d)(47) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act shall be in Form L2.
(3) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer under rule 19A of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act, when a parliamentary election is combined with another poll under section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1985(48) shall be in Form M1.
(4) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer for the purposes of rules 29(3)(e), 37(1)(b), and 37(1)(d) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act, when a parliamentary election is combined with another poll under section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 shall be in Form M2.”.
(2) In Schedule 3, in the Arrangement of Forms, after the entry relating to Form K insert–
| “Form L1 | Corresponding Number List for use at parliamentary election taken alone |
| Form L2 | Corresponding Number List for use in polling station at parliamentary election taken alone |
| Form M1 | Corresponding Number List for use when parliamentary election combined with another poll |
| Form M2 | Corresponding Number List for use in polling station when parliamentary election combined with another poll”. |
(3) After Form K in Schedule 3, insert Forms L1, L2, M1 and M2 as set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
29.—(1) In regulation 72(49) omit paragraph (1) and for “counterfoil attached to the ballot paper” in paragraph (2) substitute “corresponding number list, next to the number and unique identifying mark of the ballot paper issued to that elector”.
(2) In regulation 75, in the heading and in paragraph (1), for the word “counterfoils” substitute “completed corresponding number lists”.
1983 c. 2; Schedule 2A was inserted by Schedule 16 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) and paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 2A was inserted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Back [35]
Regulation 51B was inserted by S.I. 2006/834. Back [36]
Regulation 55 was substituted by S.I. 2006/834 and is also amended by regulation 31 of these Regulations. Back [37]
Regulation 72 was amended by S.I. 2002/1872. Back [38]
The reference is to Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2). Back [39]
The reference is to Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2); paragraph 4(1)(b) was amended by section 14(2)(a) of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Back [40]
Regulations 77 and 78 were amended by S.I. 2006/834. Back [41]
Regulation 93(2) was inserted by S.I. 2002/1872. Back [42]
Regulation 7 was amended by S.I. 2002/1872. The reference is to section 13B of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), which was substituted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2). Subsections (3B) to (3E) were added by section 11 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Back [43]
Regulation 36 was amended by S.I. 2002/1872. Back [44]
These regulations were inserted by S.I. 2002/1872, except for regulation 108A which was inserted by S.I. 2006/834. Back [45]
Rule 19A was added by section 31 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Back [46]
Rule 29(3)(e) was also added by that section of the 2006 Act; rule 37 was substituted by paragraph 75 of Schedule 1 to that Act. Back [47]
1985 c. 50; section 15 was amended by section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) and by paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26). Back [48]
Regulation 72 was amended by S.I. 2002/1872. Back [49]
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