Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations, 1950*
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1950/1250 |
1950 No. 1250 (S. 88)
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations, 1950*6thJuly 1950
30thJuly 1950*
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
REGISTRATION
The Register and Electors Lists
1. Separate part of electors lists and register for each registration unit.
2. Order of names in register.
3. Registration number in register.
4. Form of the electors lists.
5. Marking of names to indicate at which elections person entitled to vote.
6. Marking of names to indicate manner of voting.
7. Publication of the electors lists.
Claims and objections
8. Notice of claims and objections.
9. Time for making claims and objections.
10. Form of claims and objections.
11. Entry and preliminary disposal of claims and objections.
12. Hearing of claims and objections.
13. Date of completion of consideration of claims and objections.
14. Corrections to the electors lists.
15. Other corrections to the electors lists.
Publication and Sale of the Register
16. Publication of register.
17. Registration officer to furnish copies of register.
18. Free copies of register.
19. Sale of register.
* See Regulation 72. These Regulations were approved by Resolution of the House of Lords, 24th July, 1950, and the House of Commons, 25th July, 1950, in accordance with section 171 (5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1949.
Supplementary
20. Declaration as to age and nationality.
21. Information from householders.
22. Adaptation of electors lists and register in consequence of altered polling districts.
Corrupt and Illegal Practices Lists
23. Corrupt and illegal practices lists.
PART II
ABSENT VOTERS, PROXIES AND POSTAL PROXIES
24. Application to be treated as an absent voter.
25. Record and list of absent voters.
26. Application to vote by proxy.
27. Appointment of proxy.
28. Proxy paper.
29. Cancellation and disregard of proxy appointment.
30. Record and list of proxies.
31. Application by proxy to vote by post.
32. Record and list of postal proxies.
33. Certificate of employment.
PART III
ISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS
Interpretation
34. Interpretation of Part III.
Issue of Postal Ballot Papers
35. Form of postal ballot paper.
36. Form of declaration of identity.
37. Persons entitled to be present at issue and receipt of postal ballot papers.
38. Declaration of secrecy.
39. Notice of issue of postal ballot papers.
40. Marking of postal ballot paper.
41. Refusal to issue postal ballot paper.
42. Ballot paper envelope.
43. Delivery of postal ballot papers to post office.
44. Provision of postal voters ballot box.
45. Sealing up of special lists and counterfoils.
Receipt of Postal Ballot Papers
46. Receipt of covering envelope.
47. Opening of postal voters ballot box.
48. Opening of covering envelopes.
49. Sealing up rejected votes and declarations of identity.
50. Opening of ballot paper envelopes.
51. Forwarding or retention of documents.
PART IV
SERVICE VOTERS
52. Service declaration by member of the forces or his wife.
53. Qualification for Crown servant.
54. Service declaration by Crown servant or his wife.
55. Transmission of service declaration by Crown servant or his wife.
56. Service declaration by person about to leave the United Kingdom.
57. Proceedings by registration officer on receipt of service declaration.
58. Invalid service declaration.
59. Service declaration ceasing to be in force.
60. Evidence as to service declaration.
PART V
SUPPLEMENTARY
61. Appeals.
62. Registration of motor vehicles.
63. Official poll card.
64. Forms.
65. Sending of notices, etc.
66. Publication of documents.
67. Misnomers.
68. Time.
69. Penalties.
70. Interpretation.
71. Revocation and savings.
72. Commencement, citation and extent.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE: Forms.
Forms for use by registration officers
Form A: Return by householder as to residents
Form B1: Non-resident qualification (for local government purposes
only)—return in respect of ownership
Form B2: Non-resident qualification (for local government purposes
only)—return in respect of occupation as tenant
Form C: Notice as to publication of the electors lists and making of
claims and objections
Form D: Proxy paper
Forms for use by returning officers
Form E: Elector's official poll card.
Form F: Proxy's official poll card.
Form G: Certificate of employment.
Form H: Declaration of identity.
Forms for use by service voters
Form J: Service declaration and application for appointment of proxy
by a member of the forces.
Form K: Service declaration and application for appointment of proxy
by the wife of a member of the forces.
Form L: Service declaration and application for appointment of proxy
by a Crown servant.
Form M: Service declaration and application for appointment of proxy
by the wife of a Crown servant.
Form N: Application by a service voter in the United Kingdom to vote
by post.
Forms for use by other persons
Form O1: Claim to be registered in respect of residence as a parliamentary
and local government elector.
Form O2: Claim to be registered as a local government elector in respect
of ownership or occupation as tenant of lands and heritages.
Form P: Form of objection.
Form Q: Application to be treated as an absent voter for an indefinite
period owing to occupation or physical incapacity.
Form R: Application to be treated as an absent voter owing to change
of residence.
Form S: Application to be treated as an absent voter for a particular
election.
Form T: Application to be treated as an absent voter for an indefinite
period owing to sea or air journey necessary from qualifying
address.
Form U: Application by absent voter for appointment of proxy.
Form V: Application by a service voter's proxy to vote by post.
Form W: Return of expenses required by ssection 63 of the Representation
of the People Act, 1949, to be authorised by an election agent.
Form X: Declaration as to expenses required by ssection 63 of the
Representation of the People Act, 1949, to be authorised by an
election agent.
SECOND SCHEDULE: Table of comparison of election rules.
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Representation of the People Act, 1949(a), and by the Electoral Registers Act, 1949(b), I hereby make the following Regulations:—
PART I
REGISTRATION
The Register and Electors Lists
Separate part of electors lists and register for each registration unit
1.—(1) Both the electors lists and the register shall be framed in separate parts for each registration unit.
(2) The registration unit shall be each parliamentary polling district if wholly contained in an electoral area or, where a parliamentary polling district is contained in more than one electoral area, each part of the polling district contained in a separate electoral area.
Order of names in register
2. The names in each registration unit in the register shall be arranged in street order unless the local authority appointing the registration officer determine for any unit that alphabetical order is more convenient, or that the names shall be arranged partly in one way and partly in the other.
Registration number in register
3.—(1) The names in each parliamentary polling district in the register shall be numbered consecutively so far as is reasonably practicable with a separate series of numbers (beginning with the number one) for each parliamentary polling district or, where a parliamentary polling district is partly in one registration area and partly in another, for each part of a parliamentary polling district contained in a separate registration area.
(a) 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 68.
(b) 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 86.
(2) There shall be a separate letter or letters in the register for each parliamentary polling district or, where a parliamentary polling district is partly in one registration area and partly in another, for each part of a parliamentary polling district contained in a separate registration area, and such letter or letters shall be deemed to form part of an elector's number on the register.
Form of the electors lists
4.—(1) The electors lists for a registration unit shall consist of—
List A—a copy of the register in force for the unit.
List B—a list of newly qualified electors, that is to say, persons who are qualified for registration as parliamentary or as local government electors in respect of qualifying addresses for which they are not registered in the register in force or who, since the qualifying date of the register in force, have become entitled to be registered as non-residents instead of as residents or service voters, or vice versa, or as residents instead of as service voters, or vice versa, in respect of those addresses, and
List C—a list of persons who have ceased to be qualified as electors or whose qualification has been altered, that is to say, persons who, being registered in respect of qualifying addresses in the register in force, have ceased to be qualified for registration as parliamentary or as local government electors in respect of those addresses or who, since the qualifying date for the register in force, have become entitled to be registered as non-residents instead of as residents or service voters, or vice versa, or as residents instead of as service voters, or vice versa, in respect of those addresses:
Provided that where the area of a registration unit differs from the area of that unit as constituted for the purposes of the register in force, the registration unit may be treated as having the same area as it had for the purposes of the register in force.
(2) The names in List B need not be numbered.
(3) The names in List C shall have opposite them their numbers in the register in force.
Marking of names to indicate at which elections person entitled to vote
5.—(1) To indicate that an elector has a non-resident qualification in respect of an address or is otherwise not entitled to vote at a parliamentary election the letter "L" shall be placed against his name in the electors lists and the register.
(2) To indicate that an...
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