§ 2. The register shall, as respects each registration unit, contain the names of those who are entitled to vote as Parliamentary electors and of those who are entitled to vote as local government electors, but shall be framed so as to show in separate divisions the names of those who are entitled to vote both as Parliamentary and local government electors, the names of those who are entitled to vote as Parliamentary electors but not as local government electors, and the names of those who are entitled to vote as local government electors but not as Parliamentary electors.
1969§ Where a person whose name. is entered as a local government elector in any registration unit is not entitled to vote in respect of that entry at the local government elections for all the local government electoral areas which comprise that unit, the registration officer shall place a mark against his name, with a note to signify that the person against whose name the mark is placed is entitled to vote only for the local government elections mentioned in the note, and any such note shall be deemed to be part of the register.
§ 3. The registration officer shall prepare and include in the register as a separate list for the whole registration area, or where the area includes more than one constituency, for each constituency in the area a list of those entitled to vote as absent voters (in this Act referred to as the absent voters' list) without, however, removing the names of those voters from any other part of the register.
§ 4. Where the registration unit is situated in a Parliamentary borough, the names in the register shall be arranged in street order, unless the authority whose clerk the registration officer is or by whom he is appointed considers that, having regard to the general character of the area forming the registration unit, arrangement in street order is inapplicable; and where the registration unit is situated in a Parliamentary county, the names in the register shall be arranged in alphabetical order, unless the said authority considers that, having regard to the general character of the area forming the registration unit, arrangement in street order is possible and convenient.
§ 7. The registration officer, where he does not himself perform the duties of overseers, may require the overseers of any parish which, or any part of which, forms a registration unit within his registration area to prepare the electors' lists for that unit on his behalf, and it shall be the duty of the overseers to furnish lists as so required, and also at any time, if required by the registration officer, to furnish that officer with information respecting any persons resident, or occupying land or premises in their parish, or the removal of any person from the parish.
§ Any reasonable expenses incurred by the overseers in performing any duties required of them in pursuance of this rule (including reasonable remuneration where 1970 the duties are performed by an assistant overseer or other paid officer) shall be paid by the registration officer as part of his registration expenses. In this rule the expression "overseers" includes any person for the time being executing any of the duties of overseers.
§ 8. The registration officer shall publish, together with the electors' lists, the corrupt and illegal practices list (if any) made by him under Section thirty-nine of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883.
§ 10. The form of claim shall contain a declaration of the qualification of the claimant to be registered, including a declaration that the claimant has attained the required age, and is a British subject, and of the character in which the claimant desires to be registered, that is to say, either as a Parliamentar elector or as a local government elector, or as a local government elector who is riot entitled to vote for all local government elections, and where the claimant claims in respect of a non-residential qualification a declaration of residence or in case such person has no settled residence an address to which communications may be sent. A note shall also be added to the form warning the claimant that any false declaration for the purpose of this provision will involve a penalty.
§ 13 (a). It shall be the duty of the registration officer to publish a list of the names of persons to whose registration notice of objection has been given as soon as practicable after the seventh day of March in the case of the spring register and the fourth day of September in the case of the autumn register.
§ 14. Any person entitled to be registered as a Parliamentary elector may, before the fifteenth day of February where the claim is for the spring register, and the fifteenth day of August where the claim is for the autumn register, claim to be placed on the absent voters' list: and the registration officer, if satisfied that there is a probability that the claimant, by reason of the nature of his occupation, service, or employment, may be debarred from voting at a poll at Parliamentary elections held during the time the register is in force, shall place the claimant on the absent voters' list.
§ 15. It shall be the duty of the registration officer, without any claim being made 1971 for the purpose, to place on the absent voters' list any person registered as a naval or military voter, unless—
- (a) that person before the fifteenth day of February as respects the spring register, and the fifteenth day of August as respects the autumn register, gives notice to the registration officer that he does not desire to be placed upon that list; or
- (b) that person is registered, in pursuance of a claim for the purpose, for the constituency in which he has an actual residence qualification.
§ 16. The registration officer shall keep a record of any address which may be furnished to him by any person placed on the absent voters' list, or by the Admiralty or Army Council, as the address which is to be for the time being the address of the voter for the purpose of the provisions relating to voting by absent voters and shall cause instructions to be sent to the voter as to the mode of voting under those provisions.
§ The record of addresses shall be open to inspection under the same conditions that govern the register.
§ 17. The naval and military authorities shall furnish to the registration officer, for the purpose of the registration of persons as naval or military voters, and their voting as such, such information as may be prescribed after consultation with the Admiralty arid Army Council respectively.
§ 21. The registration officer shall make such additions and corrections in the electors' lists (including the absent voters' list) as are required in order to carry out his decisions on any objections or claims and shall also make any such corrections in those lists by way of the removal of duplicate entries (subject to any expression of choice by the person affected as to those entries), the expunging of the names of persons who are dead, or the placing of marks, or the correction of marks placed, against the name of an elector, or otherwise as he thinks necessary in order to secure that no person is registered as a Parliamentary elector in respect of more than one qualification in the same constituency, and otherwise make those lists complete and accurate as a register.
§ 22. Any person whose name shall appear in the list of voters of any parish in any 1972 county constituency and who resides outside the polling district in which he is entitled to be registered, shall be at liberty to make his claim before the registration officer to be registered to vote at any other polling place within the same constituency.
§ Any person so registered shall be admitted to vote at such polling place accordingly.
§ 24. The registration officer shall make all the necessary corrections of the lists (including the absent voters' list) and do everything necessary to form those lists into a register in time to allow the publication of the lists so corrected as a register as required by these rules.
§ 29. Where the registration officer by these rules is required to publish any document, and no specific provision is made as to the mode of publication, he shall publish the document by making copies of the document available for inspection by the public in his office, and in the chief post office (if the Postmaster-General gives authority for the purpose), or some other convenient place in the area forming the registration unit. to which the document relates and, if he thinks fit, in any other manner which is, in his opinion, desirable for the purpose of bringing the contents of the document to the notice of those interested.
§ 32. Any claim or notice of objection which is under these rules to be sent to the registration officer may be sent to him by post addressed to him at his office.
§ Any notice which is required to be sent by the registration officer under these rules to any person shall be sufficiently sent if sent by post to the address of that person as given by him for the purpose, or as appearing on the register, or if there is no such address, to his last known place of abode.
§ 33. The registration officer may require any householder or any person owning or occupying any land or premises within his area, or the agent or factor of such person, to give, in the prescribed form, any information in his possession which the registration officer may require for the purpose of his duties as registration officer; and if any person fails to give the required information, or gives false infor- 1973 mation, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.