Registration Act 1885
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1885 c. 15 |
| Year | 1885 |
Registration Act, 1885
(48 & 49 Vict.) CHAPTER 15.
An Act to assimilate the Law affecting the Registration of Occupation Voters in Counties and Boroughs, and for other purposes.
[21st May 1885]
Whereas it is expedient that the assimilation of the county and borough occupation franchises should be followed by an assimilation of the registration law applicable to those franchises in counties and boroughs:
Be it therefore 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 Extension to county voters of borough system ofregistration.
(1)1.—(1.) Subject to the modifications in this Act mentioned, the registration of occupation voters in parliamentary counties shall be conducted in the like manner as the registration of occupation voters in parliamentary boroughs, and the Parliamentary Registration Acts shall apply to parliamentary counties in like manner as they apply to parliamentary boroughs.
(2) (2.) Subject to the modifications in this Act mentioned, the following sections of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 , that is to say,—
Section nine (relating to the publication of notices at post offices, telegraph offices, and public, municipal, and parochial offices);
Section twenty-seven (relating to objections to the lists of voters);
Section twenty-eight (relating to the duties and powers of revising barristers); and
Section twenty-nine (relating to the power to fine overseers for neglect of duty),
shall apply to the registration of ownership voters in parliamentary counties in like manner as to the registration of occupation voters; but save as aforesaid, nothing in this section shall be deemed to extend to ownership voters any of the provisions of the Parliamentary Registration Acts which relate to boroughs.
(3) (3.) In the construction of the above-mentioned Acts and sections for the purposes of their application by this section, there shall be made the variations following, and such other variations as are necessary for carrying into effect the said application; that is to say,—
(a .) ‘Parliamentary county’ shall be substituted for ‘parliamentary borough.’
(b .) ‘Clerk of the peace’ shall, subject as in this Act mentioned, be substituted for ‘town clerk,’ save where the context requires a reference to the town clerk of a municipal borough.
(c .) Section nine of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 , shall apply only to the publication of notices within parishes situate wholly or partly in an urban sanitary district and not in a parliamentary borough.
(d .) Section sixteen of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall not apply to parliamentary counties, except so far as relates to the registration of persons entitled to vote in respect of a lodger qualification.
(e .) Section twenty-one of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall not apply to parliamentary counties.
(f .) Any notice required to be given to the town clerk by section twenty-seven of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, relating to the withdrawal and revival of objections, shall be given in a parliamentary county to the overseers, and not to the clerk of the peace.
2 Adaptation of Acts as regards lists of county voters.
(1)2.—(1.) For the purpose of the enactments relating to the registration of voters the lists of occupation voters in a parliamentary county shall be deemed to be part of the list of voters in that county, and any person whose name appears in the list of voters may object to the name of any other person therein, in like manner as if he were on the register of voters for the county.
(2) (2.) In the list of voters and register of voters in a parliamentary county there shall be separate lists of—
(a .) ownership voters;
(b .) occupation voters other than lodgers; and
(c .) lodgers.
3 Alteration of dates.
(1)3.—(1.) In both parliamentary counties and parliamentary boroughs notices of claims and objections shall be given on or before the twentieth day of August, and the twentieth day shall be substituted in the Parliamentary Registration Acts for the twenty-fifth day of August wherever the same occurs.
(2) (2.) The overseers shall, in both parliamentary counties and parliamentary boroughs, on or before the twenty-fifth day of August publish the lists of claims and objections, and deliver to the clerk of the peace and town clerk respectively the papers mentioned in sections nine and nineteen of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843 ; and the twenty-fifth day of August shall be substituted in the Parliamentary Registration Acts for the twenty-ninth day of August and for the first day of September wherever those dates respectively occur, and the first fourteen days after the said twenty-fifth day of August shall be substituted for the first fourteen days of September.
4 Amendments as to revision.
(1)4.—(1.) The court for the revision of the lists of voters in a parliamentary county may be held within the same period within which a court may be held for the revision of the lists of voters in a parliamentary borough, and seven days notice of each court shall be sufficient.
(2) (2.) All declarations made in pursuance of section ten of the County Voters Registration Act, 1865 , shall be transmitted to the clerk of the peace on or before the twelfth day of September, and such declarations shall be open to inspection, and copies thereof shall be sold, on any day prior to the first day on which a court for the revision of the lists of voters in a parliamentary county can be held.
(3) (3.) Where a place in a parliamentary county at which a revising barrister for such county is required to hold a court, is an urban sanitary district containing, according to the last published census for the time being, more than ten thousand inhabitants, the revising barrister shall hold at least one evening sitting of his court in such place, and section four of the Revising Barristers Act, 1873 , shall apply to such sitting with the substitution of clerk of the peace for town clerk.
(4) (4.) When it appears to the local authority having power to assign polling places in a parliamentary county that, for the convenience of the voters in some polling district in such county, it is expedient to direct the holding of a revision court in a town near such polling district, although outside the boundary of the said county, the said authority may direct the revising barrister for the county to hold a revision court in such town.
(5) (5.) The revising barrister need not insert in any list of voters for a parish in a county or borough the names of persons claiming to be inserted in such list, but may revise the list of claimants in like manner as if it were a list of voters, and sign the same as so revised, and deliver it to the clerk of the peace or town clerk as the case requires, and such clerk shall insert in the proper place in the lists of voters the name of each person appearing from the revised list of claimants so signed to be entitled to vote.
(6) (6.) The revising barrister shall, if practicable, complete the revision of the lists of voters for the parishes in one polling district in a parliamentary county, and transmit the same to the clerk of the peace of the county, before proceeding to revise the lists of voters for any parish in another polling district.
(7) (7.) The clerk of the peace shall, as soon as possible, proceed to cause copies of such lists to be printed, and in numbering the names shall prefix the number one to the first name in each polling district, so that there may be a separate series of numbers for each polling district, and such distinctive letter shall be applied to each polling district as may be determined by the local authority creating the polling district, or in default of such determination by the clerk of the peace; and in the case of a poll such letter shall be deemed to be part of the number of the elector, to be marked in manner directed by the Ballot Act, 1872 .
(8) (8.) The clerk of the peace shall, as soon as possible after the receipt of all the revised lists of his county, cause to be made out and printed a separate supplemental list for each polling district, containing the names of all persons whose names do not appear in any list of voters for the parishes in such district, but who have been registered by the revising barrister as entitled to vote at the polling place of such district; and such supplemental list shall be placed at the end of the parish lists in each polling district; and the names therein shall be numbered consecutively after the rest of the lists in such polling district. The clerk of the peace shall add at the end of the register of voters a summary of the number of voters in each polling district.
(9) (9.) Sub-section fourteen of section twenty-eight of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 , shall not apply to parliamentary counties, and in substitution for it the following provisions shall have effect:—
(a .) Where the name of a person appears to be entered more than once as a parliamentary voter on the lists of voters for the same parliamentary county, the revising barrister shall inquire whether such entries relate to the same person, and, on proof that such entries relate to the same person, shall retain one entry and erase the others.
(b .) The said person may select the entry to be retained by notice in writing delivered or sent by post to the revising barrister at or before the opening of the first court at which he revises any of the lists in which any of such entries appear, or...
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