Rule 47 Retention of documentsI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 5 rule 11(1)(a) words substituted by Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) 2010 Sch. 3 para. 75(3)
Sch. 5 rule 8(3) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 9
Sch. 5 rule 3 modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 11(1)(2)
Sch. 5 rule 12(2) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 11(3)
Sch. 5 rule 13(1) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 13
Sch. 5 rule 14(2) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 16
Sch. 5 rule 16(6) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 17
Sch. 5 rule 17(2)(7) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 18
Sch. 5 rule 17(8) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 21
Sch. 5 rule 17(10) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 22
Sch. 5 rule 26 Table modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 26
Sch. 5 rule 28(6) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 27
Sch. 5 rule 28(1)(d) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 28
Sch. 5 rule 29(4) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 30
Sch. 5 rule 30(7)(a) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 31
Sch. 5 rule 30(6) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 32
Sch. 5 rule 32(3) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 33
Sch. 5 rule 34(2) excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 34
Sch. 5 rule 37 excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 41
Sch. 5 rule 38 excluded by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 44
Sch. 5 rule 44 modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 47(2)
Sch. 5 rule 45 modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 48(2)(3)
Sch. 5 rule 46(9) modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 48(6)
Sch. 5 rule 45(1) modified by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Sch. 5 para. 48(7)

The relevant registration officer must retain for one year all documents relating to a referendum forwarded to him in pursuance of these Rules by the relevant returning or counting officer and the counting officer and then, unless otherwise directed by an order of a county court, the Crown Court, a magistrates’ court or an election court, must cause them to be destroyed.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 5 rule 47 in force at 27.7.2007, see reg. 1(2)