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Statutory Instruments
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
Made
16th July 2003
Coming into force
30th July 2003
Whereas the Secretary of State has consulted the Electoral Commission in accordance with section 7(1) and (2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000(1) about these Regulations;
And whereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 10(4), 53 and 201(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 2 to, the Representation of the People Act 1983(2), having regard to the definition of “prescribed” in section 202(1) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on the expiry of 14 days beginning with the day on which they are made.
(2) In these Regulations, “the 2001 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001(3).
(3) These Regulations shall extend to Scotland only.
2. Regulation 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002(4) are hereby revoked.
3. The form set out in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby prescribed for the purposes of the canvass which is required to be conducted by section 10 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
4. In regulation 26(6) of the 2001 Regulations (applications for registration)(5) for “the Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002” substitute “the Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (Scotland) Regulations 2003”.
ALISTAIR DARLING
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND
Scotland Office Dover House, London
16th July 2003
Regulation 3
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(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Under section 10 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (as substituted by Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000) each registration officer is required to conduct an annual canvass (by reference to residence on 15th October in that year) in his registration area to ascertain the persons who are entitled to be or remain registered as parliamentary or local government electors in that area.
These Regulations prescribe a form for the purposes of that canvass for 2003. The form takes account of the fact that 10 new States are likely to accede to the European Union in 2004. It makes provision for their citizens (as well as citizens of other Member States) who reside in the registration area, to be included in the register of local government electors for that area.
In addition, regulation 4 and Part II of the Schedule to the Regulations prescribe a new form of words about the full and edited versions of the register, to be included as part of the application for registration form provided by registration officers. The Regulations revoke the provisions of the Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 which had previously prescribed the form of canvass and the form of words, to be included with the canvass form, about the two versions of the register.
2000 c. 41. Back [1]
1983 c. 2; section 10 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2); section 53 was amended by that Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 13, section 201(3) was inserted by Schedule 1 to that Act; paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 9(2) of that Act. Back [2]
The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (Scotland) Regulations 2003