Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1304
The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1989
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1989 No. 1304
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1989
| Coming into force | 1st August 1989 |
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[1] 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[2]; and
"Regulations of 1986" mean the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986[3].
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.
Peter Brooke
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
28th July 1989
Notes:[1] 1983 c. 2.
[2] 1962 c. 14 (N.I.).
[3] 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.
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