Electoral Reform Act 2022

Amendment of section 133 of Act of 1992

105. Section 133 of the Act of 1992 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) Any person who knowingly furnishes false information in any application under section 14, 15D, 15E, 17 or 17A or under the Second Schedule including a third party claim or, being required pursuant to the Second Schedule to give any information in his or her possession which a registration authority or county registrar may require for the purposes of their duties, fails or refuses to give the information or knowingly gives false or misleading information, shall be guilty of an offence.”,

(b) in subsection (2), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (d):

“(d) uses or causes to be used, or permits without lawful authority or excuse another person to use, information contained in the register maintained and updated under Part II for a purpose other than electoral or other statutory purposes,”,

and

(c) in subsection (3)—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “any notice, copy of the register of electors or other document” for “any notice, draft register, copy of the register of electors, electors lists or other document”, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), by the deletion of “draft register,”.