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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

 

Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Cabinet Office, are published

separately as Bill 6—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

The Deputy Prime Minister has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a)

of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill are

compatible with the Convention rights.

 
Bill 655/2
 

 
 

Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

 

 
 

Contents

Part 1

Individual electoral registration in Great Britain

1   

Individual registration

2   

Applications for registration and verification of entitlement etc

3   

Proxies to be registered electors

4   

Annual canvass

5   

Invitations to register

6   

Power to amend or abolish the annual canvass

7   

Consulting Electoral Commission about proposals under section 6

8   

Piloting of changes to the annual canvass

9   

Piloting registration provisions

10   

Orders under Part 1

11   

Interpretation of Part 1

12   

Amendments and transitional provision

Part 2

Administration and conduct of elections etc

13   

Extension of timetable for parliamentary elections

14   

Timing of parish and community council elections in England and Wales

15   

Alteration of electoral registers: pending elections

16   

Review of polling districts and places in Great Britain

17   

Inadequate performance of returning officer: reduction of charges

18   

Use of emblems on ballot papers

19   

Community support officers

20   

Notification of rejected postal vote

21   

Repeal of powers to establish co-ordinated on-line record of electors

Part 3

Final provisions

22   

Financial provisions

23   

Meaning of “the Minister” etc

24   

Extent

 

Bill 6                                                                                                  

55/2

 

 

Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

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25   

Commencement

26   

Short title

Schedule 1   —   

Register of electors: alterations and removal

Schedule 2   —   

Sharing and checking information etc

Schedule 3   —   

Civil penalty for failing to make application when required by

registration officer

Schedule 4   —   

Amendments to do with Part 1

Schedule 5   —   

Transitional provision to do with Part 1

Part 1   —   

Introduction

Part 2   —   

Removal of existing registrations by end of the second new

canvass

Part 3   —   

Encouraging new applications

Part 4   —   

Absent voting

Part 5   —   

Persons with existing registrations by virtue of declarations etc

Part 6   —   

Persons with existing registrations by virtue of section 7(2) or

7A(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1983

Part 7   —   

Supplementary

 

 

 
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