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Regulation 12 Notification following determination

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(1)

Where a registration officer grants or refuses an identity document application, the registration officer must notify the applicant of that determination, together with any other information required by this regulation.

(2)

Where the registration officer grants the identity document application, the registration officer must also notify the applicant whether the electoral identity document or, as the case may be, the anonymous elector’s document to be issued to the applicant will be delivered to the applicant by post or made available for collection by the applicant, as determined in accordance with regulation 17.

(3)

Where the registration officer refuses an identity document application, the registration officer must also notify the applicant of—

(a)

the reason for that refusal,

(b)

the right of appeal under section 56(1)(ac) of the 1983 Actf1, and

(c)

the time in which any notice of appeal under that section must be given (in accordance with regulation 13(1)).

(4)

Where the registration officer notifies the applicant other than by written notification, the registration officer must, as soon as reasonably practicable after that notification send a written notification containing the same information to the relevant delivery address (which has the same meaning as in regulation 4(7)).

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Footnotes

f1

Section 56(1) was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 4, to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50); by paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2); by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22); by paragraph 18 of Schedule 4 to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6); and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37). It is prospectively amended by section 18(9) of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1) from a date and time to be appointed.