Electoral Registers Act 1953
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Electoral Registers Act, 1953
(2 & 3 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 8
An Act to alter the date for the publication, in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-five and subsequent years, of registers of parliamentary and local government electors, and consequentially on that alteration to alter the elections for which those registers are to be used, and the qualifying date for those elections, and make further provision in place of section four of the Electoral Registers Act, 1949.
[18th December 1953]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Alteration of date for publication of registers, of qualifying date for registration etc.
(1) The Electoral Registers Act, 1949 , shall have effect with the substitution for subsections (2) to (4) of section one of the following subsections:—
(2) Registers of parliamentary and local government electors or, in Northern Ireland, registers of parliamentary electors, shall be published not later than the fifteenth day of February, and registers published in any year shall be used for elections at which the date fixed for the poll falls within the period of twelve months beginning with the sixteenth day of February in that year.
(3) As regards Great Britain, the tenth day of October in any year shall be the qualifying date for a parliamentary or local government election at which the date fixed for the poll falls within the period of twelve months beginning with the sixteenth day of February in the next following year.
(4) As regards Northern Ireland, the fifteenth day of September in any year shall be the qualifying date for such a parliamentary election as aforesaid.’
(2) In the said Act, section two and the First Schedule (which make provision, consequential on the abolition of the autumn register, with respect to persons coming of age during the currency of the annual register) shall be amended by substituting references to the fifteenth day of February for the references in that section to the fifteenth day of March or to the first day of April, and by substituting references to the sixteenth day of February for the references in paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Schedule to the sixteenth day of March or to the second day of April.
(3) Section four of the said Act (together with the Representation of the People (Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1951, and the Representation of the People (Adaptation of...
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