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Overseas Electors Bill

Explanatory Notes

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Overview of the Bill

1 The Overseas Electors Bill removes the existing 15 year time limit on British citizens who live abroad registering as overseas electors to enfranchise any British citizen overseas who was previously resident or registered to vote in the UK. It makes no other changes to their eligibility to vote in different types of elections, or to British citizens living in the UK.

  1. What these notes do 
  2. Overview of the Bill
  3. Policy background
  4. Legal background
  5. Territorial extent and application
  6. Commentary on provisions of Bill
  7. Clause 1: Extension of franchise for parliamentary elections: British citizens overseas
  8. New section 1 (Extension of parliamentary franchise)
  9. New section 1B (British citizens overseas: entitlement to be registered)
  10. New section 1C (Overseas elector’s declaration)
  11. New section 1D (Duration of entitlement to be registered)
  12. New section 1E (Renewal declaration)
  13. New section 1F (Power to amend period specified in section 1D)
  14. New section 1G (Duty to have regard to guidance)
  15. Commencement
  16. Financial implications of the Bill
  17. Parliamentary approval for financial costs or for charges imposed
  18. Related documents
  19. Annex A - Territorial extent and application in the United Kingdom
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Prepared 7th February 2018

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