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The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2013

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Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 702 (C. 31)

Representation Of The People

The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2013

Made

21st March 2013

The Lord President of the Council makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1) and 27(1) of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013(1).

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Commencement No.2) Order 2013.

2.  Section 11 of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (orders under Part 1) comes into force on 25th March 2013.

3.  The following provisions of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 come into force on 2nd April 2013—

(a)section 10 (piloting registration provisions);

(b)section 15 (timing of parish and community council elections);

(c)section 17 (review of polling districts and places);

(d)section 22 (notification of rejected postal vote);

(e)section 23 (repeal of powers to establish co-ordinated on-line record of electors).

Signed by authority of the Lord President of the Council

Chloë Smith

Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform

Cabinet Office

21st March 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force a number of provisions of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c.6). Section 11, which is about order-making powers relating to individual electoral registration, comes into force on 25th March 2013. Other provisions come into force on 2nd April 2013 –

section 10, which enables provisions on individual electoral registration to be piloted;

section 15, which enables polls at parish and community council elections in England and Wales to be held on the ordinary day for the election of councillors even where this coincides with the day of a UK, or European, parliamentary general election;

section 17, which requires local authorities to carry out reviews of polling places between 1st October 2013 and 31st January 2015, and over similar periods beginning with 1st October every fifth year after 2013;

section 22, which enables regulations to be made to deal with cases in which a person is to be notified when their postal vote has been rejected because the returned postal voting statement was not duly completed;

section 23, which repeals provisions about the co-ordinated on-line record of electors, which have not been brought into force and which to some extent have been superseded by provisions in the 2013 Act on individual electoral registration.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDER

(This note is not part of the Order)

Provision

Date of Commencement

S.I. No.

Section 2(6)05.02.20132013/219
Section 13(2) (partially)05.02.20132013/219

Schedule 2

Schedule 5, paragraphs 4(4) and 9(1) and (5) to (7)

05.02.2013

05.02.2013

2013/219

2013/219

(1)

2013 c.6. Section 25(1) defines “the Minister” as the Lord President of the Council or the Secretary of State.

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