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Notices of Amendments: 14 June 2012                     

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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, continued

 
 

(2)    

In section 1 (Extension of parliamentary franchise) omit subsections (3)(c) and

 

(4)(a).

 

(3)    

In section 3 (Extension of franchise for European Parliamentary elections) omit

 

subsections (3)(c) and (4)(a).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

Currently, British citizens can qualify as overseas electors only if they have been resident in the

 

United Kingdom within the previous 15 years. This also applies to Members of the House of Lords

 

for European Parliamentary elections. This amendment would remove this qualifying period, so

 

that British citizens could qualify as overseas electors even if they had ceased to be resident in the

 

United Kingdom more than 15 years before.

 


 

Voting procedure

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Meg Munn

 

Mr David Blunkett

 

Bob Blackman

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

Meg Hillier

 

Jane Ellison

 

Philip Davies

 

Nick de Bois

 

Stephen Williams

 

Mr John Leech

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) (parliamentary

 

elections rules) is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In rule 37 (voting procedure) after paragraph (6) insert—

 

“(7)    

A voter who is in the polling station or in a queue outside the polling

 

station for the purpose of voting at the time specified for the close of the

 

poll shall be entitled to apply for a ballot paper under paragraph 1 above

 

and a ballot paper shall be delivered and the voter entitled to vote in

 

accordance with this rule.”.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

Currently, voters who are in a queue at a polling station at 10 pm but who have not yet been issued

 

with their ballot paper are unable to cast their vote. This amendment would allow for ballot papers

 

to be issued to any registered voter who is in the polling station or in a queue outside the polling

 

station at 10 pm, in order that they may then cast their vote.

 


 

Mr Wayne David

 

Angela Smith

 

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Parliamentary Star    

Clause  25,  page  14,  line  17,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

Before making an order under subsection 1, the Secretary of State must seek the

 

views of the Electoral Commission as to whether the establishment of an electoral

 

register made up solely of electors who have registered individually would help

 

or hinder the achievement of the registration objectives.


 
 

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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, continued

 
 

(1B)    

For these purposes the registration objectives are to secure, so far as is reasonably

 

practicable—

 

(a)    

that persons who are entitled to be registered in a register are registered

 

in it,

 

(b)    

that persons who are not entitled to be registered in a register are not

 

registered in it, and

 

(c)    

that none of the information relating to a registered person that appears

 

in a register or other record kept by a registration officer is false.

 

(1C)    

The Commission must submit its assessment, with a recommendation, in a report

 

to the Secretary of State, which must be laid before Parliament as soon as possible

 

by the Secretary of State.

 

(1D)    

If—

 

(a)    

the recommendation in the Electoral Commission’s report is that the

 

establishment of an electoral register made up solely of electors who have

 

registered individually would help the achievement of the registration

 

objectives, and

 

(b)    

the recommendation is approved by a resolution of each House of

 

Parliament,

 

    

the Secretary of State may make an order bringing Parts 1 and 2 of this Act into

 

force.

 

(1E)    

The Secretary of State may not make such an order if those conditions are not met.

 

(1F)    

If—

 

(a)    

the Electoral Commission’s report does not contain a recommendation to

 

proceed to establish an electoral register made up solely of electors who

 

have registered individually, or

 

(b)    

the report does contain such a recommendation, but it is not approved by

 

a resolution of each House of Parliament,

 

    

within 12 months after the day on which the report is submitted by the Electoral

 

Commission (in the case mentioned in paragraph (a)) or disapproved in

 

Parliament (in the case mentioned in paragraph (b)), the Secretary of State must

 

require the Commission to submit, by a specified date, a further report under this

 

section containing the terms mentioned in subsection (1A).

 

(1G)    

For the purposes of subsection (1F)—

 

(a)    

a report is disapproved in Parliament when either House decided against

 

resolving to approve the report (or, if both Houses so decide on different

 

days, when the first of them so decides);

 

(b)    

the date specified by the Secretary of State must be at least one year, but

 

no more than two years, after the day on which the requirement under that

 

subsection is imposed.’.

 

Mr Wayne David

 

Angela Smith

 

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Parliamentary Star    

Clause  25,  page  14,  line  17,  at end insert ‘with the exception of Schedule 5, Part 2,

 

which shall come into force by order only once—

 

(a)    

the data matching pilots for pre-verification purposes established by the

 

Electoral Registration Data Schemes Order 2012 have been completed,

 

(b)    

the Electoral Commission has reported on these schemes as under the

 

terms of that Order, and

 

(c)    

the Electoral Commission believes that the completeness of the register

 

will not be negatively affected.’.


 
 

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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, continued

 
 

 

Order of the House [23 May]

 

That the following provisions shall apply to the Electoral Registration and

 

Administration Bill:

 

Commital

 

1.    

The Bill shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

 

Proceedings in Committee, on consideration and Third Reading

 

2.    

Proceedings in Committee, any proceedings on consideration and

 

proceedings on Third Reading shall be completed in three days.

 

3.    

The proceedings shall be taken on the days shown in the first column of the

 

following Table and in the order so shown.

 

4.    

The proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

 

conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table.

 

        TABLE

 

Proceedings

Time for conclusion of proceedings

 
 

First and second days

 
 

Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clause 2,

The moment of interruption on the

 
 

Schedule 2, Clauses 3 and 4,

second day.

 
 

Clauses 6 to 9, Clause 5,

  
 

Schedules 3 and 5.

  
 

Third day

  
 

Clauses 10 to 12, Schedule 4, new

Two hours before the moment of

 
 

Clauses relating to Part 1, new

interruption on the third day.

 
 

Schedules relating to Part 1,

  
 

Clauses 13 to 21, remaining new

  
 

Clauses, remaining new

  
 

Schedules, Clauses 22 to 26,

  
 

remaining proceedings in

  
 

Committee, any proceedings on

  
 

consideration.

  
 

Proceedings on Third Reading.

The moment of interruption on the

 
  

third day.

 
 

5.    

Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

 

proceedings in Committee, to any proceedings on consideration or to

 

proceedings on Third Reading.

 

Other proceedings

 

6.    

Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

 

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

 

Lords) may be programmed.

 


 
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