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Statutory Instruments
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
Made
15th May 1991
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)
Whereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by resolutionof each House of Parliament;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 6(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985(1), having regard to section 27(2) of that Act and thedefinition of"prescribed" in section 202(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983(2), I hereby make the following regulations:
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People(Amendment) Regulations 1991.
(2) These Regulations do not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
(3) These Regulations shall come into force when the Representation ofthe People Act 1990(3) comes into force in England and Wales.
2. After regulation 63 of the Representation of the People Regulations1986(4), there shall be inserted the following regulation:
63A. An application under paragraph (aa) of section 6(2) of the Actof 1985(5) shall specify the address, if any, at which theapplicant is resident at the date of the application.".
Kenneth Baker
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
15th May 1991
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Representation of the People Regulations1986 (which apply in England and Wales) to make provision to give fulleffect to the amendments made by section 1 of the Representation of thePeople Act 1990 ("the 1990 Act"). Under section 2 of that Act, it is to be brought into force by acommencement order made by the Secretary of State.
Section 6 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 ("the 1985 Act") provides for the right to an absent vote at parliamentaryelections, at local government elections or at make a person eligiblefor an absent vote for an indefinite period if he is no longer residentat his qualifying address or at any other address in the same area; inspite of the reference to"an indefinite periods", the entitlement expires with the register of electors in relationto which the application was made. Section 1(b) of the 1990 Act insertsan additional subsection into section 6 of the 1985 Act to define whatis the same area for these purposes. The amendment made by theseRegulations requires an applicant to give the address, if any, at whichhe is currently resident and thereby enables the electoral registrationofficer to determine whether or not the new address is in the same areaas the qualifying address.
S.I. 1986/1081, to which there are amendments notrelevant to these Regulations.
Paragraph (aa) was inserted by section 1(a) of theRepresentation of the People Act 1990.
