Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006
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Amendment of section 15A of Act of 1992. |
10.— Section 15A of the Act of 1992 (inserted by section 76 of the Electoral Act 1997 ) is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (1), by substituting “, in section 63 of the Electoral Act 1997 or in section 2 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006” for “or in section 63 of the Electoral Act, 1997 ”; | ||
(b) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (b) of subsection (2): | ||
“(bb) The provisions of sections 3 , 4 , 5 (other than subsection (1)) and 6 (other than subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6)) of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006 shall apply to an application for entry in the supplement to the postal voters list under this section from an elector referred to in section 2 (but who has not complied with subsection (1)(a) of that section) of that Act as if: | ||
(i) references to ‘postal voters list’ were references to ‘supplement to the postal voters list’; | ||
(ii) references to ‘ section 2 ’, other than those which occur in sections 4 (1)(a) and 6 (1)(a), were references to this section; | ||
(iii) in section 3 (1)(c), ‘to the registration authority’ were substituted for ‘so as to be received by the registration authority not later than the last date for making claims for corrections in the draft register’; and | ||
(iv) in section 5 (2), ‘ section 3 ’ were substituted for ‘subsection (1) at such times and places as are specified in a notice pursuant to that subsection (and the places so specified shall include every prison situated in the area of the registration authority)’.”. |