{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-annual-canvass-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111190487",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-annual-canvass-amendment-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 (provisions which may be contained in regulations as to registration etc.) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1B(1), after “canvass form” insert “or communication”.\n(3) In paragraph 3C—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for “in Great Britain” substitute “for the purposes of a register of local government electors in Scotland or Wales”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (1), insert—\n“(1A) Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer conducting a canvass for the purposes of a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain, or a register of local government electors in England—\n(a) to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining any information that a registration officer may or must require persons to give by virtue of regulations under paragraph 1B(1) in respect of a particular address,\n(b) to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining information where no response is received in respect of a particular address.”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3), after “sub-paragraph (1)” insert “, (1A)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190487/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:59:21.492148+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."
}