Article 4

(1)

Schedule 5 (local elections rules)^f1 to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2)

After sub-paragraph (f ) of rule 34(6)^f2 of the rules in that Schedule there shall be added:

“(g)

a card made of plastic on which the name and national insurance number of the person to whom it is issued have been embossed and which has been issued by the Department of Health and Social Security or the Department of Social Security”.

(3)

Form 6 (elector’s official poll card) in the Appendix of forms in that Schedule shall be amended as follows:

(a)

in paragraph (a) of the back of the card, for the words “(but NOT a provisional licence)” there shall be substituted the words “or a Northern Ireland provisional licence”;

(b)

after paragraph (d) of the back of the card there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:

“(e)

a current British seaman’s card;

(f)

a card made of plastic issued by the Department of Health and Social Security or the Department of Social Security with a name and national insurance number embossed on it;”; and

(c)

the existing paragraph (e) of the back of the card shall be renumbered “(g)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Schedule 5 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454).
f2: Sub-paragraph (f) of rule 34(6) was added by paragraph 41(b) of Schedule 1 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/168).