HC Deb 31 January 1918 vol 101 c1875

(2) A person registered as a local government elector for any local government electoral area shall while so registered (and in the case of a woman notwithstanding sex or marriage) be entitled to vote at a local government election for that area, but where, for the purposes of election, any such area is divided into more than one ward or electoral division, by whatever name called, a person shall not be entitled to vote for more than one such ward or electoral division.

Lords Amendments:

At the end of Sub-section (2), insert the words "notwithstanding anything in this provision a person may be registered for more than one such ward or division of a local government electoral area (not being a municipal borough), and may vote in any such ward or division for which he is registered at an election to fill a casual vacancy."—Agreed to.

After the words last inserted, add as a new Sub-section:

"(3) A naval or military voter who is registered in respect of a qualification which he would have had but for his service, shall be deemed for the purpose of this Section to be registered by virtue of that qualification."

Sir G. CAVE

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This is for the purpose of preventing a possible legal argument founded on the fact that a soldier is deemed to reside at a certain place though he does not in fact so reside. It is to make that hypothetical residence a real residence for the purpose of plural voting and other purposes.

Question put, and agreed to.