§ (1) This Part of this Act, so far as it relates to voting by post at parliamentary elections, shall apply only to general elections initiated during the period beginning with the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and ending with the thirty-first day of December in that year or with such later date as may be prescribed.
§ Provided that if a general election is initiated before the end of March in that year (so that no May, 1945, register comes into force under this Act) a reference to the tenth day of September shall be substituted for the reference in this Sub-section to the first day of April.
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(2) In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the means hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
declaration of residence" means a Service declaration and any corresponding declaration to be made for the purposes of the Act of 1943 by a person engaged in war work abroad;
postal voting areas" means the United Kingdom and such other areas as may be prescribed;
prescribed" means prescribed by electoral registration regulations.—[Mr. H. Morrison.]
§ Brought up, and read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.