§ A man shall be entitled to be registered as a local government elector for a local government electoral area if he is of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, and—
- (a) is on the last day of the qualifying period occupying jointly or severally, as owner or tenant, any land or premises in that area; and
- (b) has, during the whole of the qualifying period, so occupied any land or premises in that area, or, if that area is not an administrative county or a county borough, in the administrative county or county borough in which the area is wholly or partly situate:
§ Provided that—
- (i) for the purposes of this Section a man who himself inhabits any dwelling-house by virtue of any office, service, or employment, and the dwelling-house is not inhabited by any person under whom he serves in such office, service, or employment, shall be deemed to be a tenant;
- (ii)for the purposes of this Section the word tenant shall not include a person who occupies a room or rooms as a lodger except where such room or rooms arc let to him in an unfurnished state;
- (iii)a man, though he may have been occupying land or premises in the area on the last day of the qualifying period, shall not be entitled to be so registered if he commenced to occupy the land or premises within thirty days before the end of the qualifying period and ceased to occupy them within thirty days after the commencement of his occupation;
- (iv) the occupation of a house shall not be deemed to be interrupted for the purposes of this Section by reason only of permission being given by letting or otherwise for the occupation of the house as a furnished house by some other person for a Dart of the qualifying period not. exceeding four months in the whole, or by reason only of notice to quite being served and possession being demanded by the landlord of the house; and
- (v) not more than two persons shall be entitled to be registered as joint occupiers in respect of the same land or premises unless they are bonâ fide engaged as partners, carrying on their profession, trade, or business in the premises.
§ Lords Amendments:
§ In paragraph (a), leave out the words "is on the last day," and insert instead thereof the words "has during the last fourteen days."—Disagreed with
§ Leave out the word "occupying," and insert instead thereof the word "occupied."—Disagreed with.
§ have out provisos (iii), (iv), and (v).
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That, this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
§ Sir E. POLLOCKThis also must be accepted formally, and not as a matter of principle, to safeguard my rights.