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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013-transitional-provisions-order-2013/article-18",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111101902",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electoral-registration-and-administration-act-2013-transitional-provisions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/18",
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  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Steps to be taken by a registration officer to encourage a person to make a new application for registration in response to an invitation to do so",
  "text": "(1) If a registration officer has given a person an invitation to make a new application for registration under paragraph 8 or 11 of Schedule 5 to the 2013 Act and the person has not made an application to register within a reasonable time of receipt of the invitation, the registration officer must give the person a second invitation.\n(2) If no application is received in respect of the second invitation within a reasonable time of receipt of the second invitation, the registration officer must give the person a third invitation.\n(3) The registration officer may visit the address at which the first invitation was given in order to encourage the person to make a new application for registration at any time and must make or have made one visit if no application has been received in response to the third invitation.\n(4) The second and third invitations to apply for registration, if required, must be in the same form as the first invitation to apply for registration.\n(5) Paragraphs (1) to (3) do not apply if the registration officer is satisfied that—\n(a) the person is not entitled to be registered at the address at which the invitation or invitations to make a new application for registration was or were given; or\n(b) the person is registered at a different address.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111101902/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:12.401431+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}