Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1989/1304
Year1989

1989No. 1304

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland)

(Amendment) Regulations 1989

28thJuly1989

1stAugust1989

Whereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;

Now, therefore, in exercise of those provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 ( a) which are specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1989.

(2) These Regulations extend to Northern Ireland only.

2. These Regulations shall come into force on 1st August 1989.

3. In these Regulations:

"local elector" has the same meaning as in section 130(1) of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 ( b) ; and

"Regulations of 1986" mean the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986 ( c) .

4.-(1) Parts I, II and III of the Regulations of 1986 except:

(a) regulations 2 (commencement) and 3 (revocations), sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 5(1) (forms), regulations 10 (official poll card at parliamentary elections), 11 (return and declaration of election expenses), and 13 (amendment of rule 37(1E) of elections rules), and(b) any provision relating to overseas electors and European Parliamentary overseas electors,

shall have effect for the purposes of the registration of local electors and the register of local electors as well as for the registration of parliamentary electors and the register of parliamentary electors.

(2) The amendments to the Regulations of 1986 which are set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall have effect.

(a) 1983 c.2.

(b) 1962 c.14 (N.I.).

(c) S.I. 1986/1091; references to European Parliamentary overseas electors have been substituted for references to Assembly overseas electors in these Regulations following the coming into force of section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c.58) on the entry into force of the Single European Act.

Peter Brooke

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

28th July 1989

Northern Ireland Office

SCHEDULE 1

ENABLING POWERS

These Regulations are made under the following provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 ( "the Act of 1983"), as applied with modifications by section 2(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 ( a) , namely-

(a) sections 15(2) and (4), 53 ( b) and 201(1) of, and paragraphs 1(2), 3, 4 ( c) , 5 ( d) , 6, 7, 10 11, 11A ( e) and 13 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1983,...

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