# The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008, Regulation 3: Interpretation


(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1962 Act” means the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962;
“the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;
“the 1985 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1985;
“the 1989 Act” means the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989;
“the 2000 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 2000;
“the 2002 Act” means the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;
“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;
“copy of a birth certificate” means—
(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;
(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;
(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
(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;
“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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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 shall include a reference to that provision as so applied and with any modifications specified in Part II of that Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814674/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008/regulation-3
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