{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-pilot-scheme-england-order-2016/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-pilot-scheme-england-order-2016/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-pilot-scheme-england-order-2016",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Annual canvass",
  "text": "(1) A registration officer for a specified area must conduct the annual canvass required by section 9D(1) of the 1983 Act in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) The registration officer must attempt to make contact with a person at each residential address in the specified area at least once during the period beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force and ending with 2nd February 2017.\n(2A) The registration officer must also attempt to make contact with a person at each residential address in the specified area at least once during the period beginning with 1st July 2017 and ending with 2nd February 2018.\n(3) The registration officer may comply with the requirement in paragraph (2) or (2A) by any means the registration officer thinks appropriate, including—\n(a) by sending a canvass form, which may be in the form designed by the Electoral Commission under regulation 32ZA(2) of the 2001 Regulations;\n(b) by visiting the address;\n(c) by telephone;\n(d) by electronic means.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 5(2A) inserted (17.5.2017) by The Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/606), arts. 1(2), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(3) inserted (17.5.2017) by The Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/606), arts. 1(2), 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 13.7.2016, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/739/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:54.121186+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."
}