Regulation 3 Interpretation

For the purposes of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the 1962 Act” means the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962^f1;

• “the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;

• “the 1985 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1985^f2;

• “the 1989 Act” means the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989^f3;

• “the 2000 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 2000^f4;

• “the 2002 Act” means the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002^f5;

• “the 2006 Act” means the Electoral Administration Act 2006;

• “available for inspection” means available for inspection during ordinary office hours;

• “British Council employee” means a person employed by the British Council in a post outside the United Kingdom;

• “candidate” has the same meaning as section 118A of the 1983 Act^f6;

• “copy of a birth certificate” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a birth certificate issued in Northern Ireland, a certified copy of a birth entry issued by the Registrar General of Births and Deaths in Northern Ireland;

  2. (b)

     in relation to a birth certificate issued in England or Wales, a certified copy of a birth entry issued by the Registrar General for England and Wales;

  3. (c)

     in relation to a birth certificate issued in Scotland, an extract of a birth entry issued by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland; and

  4. (d)

     in relation to a birth certificate issued elsewhere, a copy certified by the issuing authority;

• “Crown servant” means a person who is employed in a post falling within the class or description set out in regulation 16;

• “data” means information which is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose;

• “edited register” has the meaning given in regulation 93(1);

• “elections rules” means the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act;

• “European Parliamentary overseas elector” means a peer who has made a European Parliamentary overseas elector’s declaration and is registered or is entitled to be registered in pursuance of it;

• “European Parliamentary overseas elector’s declaration” means a declaration made in pursuance of section 2 of the 1985 Act, as applied by regulation 14 of, and Schedule 4 to, these Regulations;

• “full register” has the meaning given in regulation 93(1);

• “list of overseas electors” means the list prepared under regulation 53;

• “local elector” and “local election” have the same meaning as in section 130(1) of the 1962 Act;

• “Miscellaneous Provisions Act” means the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006^f7;

• “overseas elector” means a person who has made an overseas elector’s declaration and is registered or entitled to be registered as a parliamentary elector in pursuance of it;

• “specified authorities” means authorities set out in regulation 42(2);

• “specified information” means information set out in regulation 42(3) to (6);

• “register” means the register of electors;

• “registration area” means the area covered by a particular register; and

• “registration officer” means the electoral registration officer.

A reference in these Regulations to a form identified by means of an alphabetical letter shall be construed as a reference to the form so identified in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Any reference in these Regulations to a provision of the 1983 Act which has been applied by section 2(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1989 Act ^f8 shall include a reference to that provision as so applied and with any modifications specified in Part II of that Schedule.