{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-6/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-6/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2031",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“billing authority” has the same meaning as in section 1(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n“business registration officer” where the referendum area falls within the area of one relevant council means the registration officer of the relevant council as appointed under section 8 of the 1983 Act, and where the referendum area comprises any part of the area of more than one relevant council, means the registration officer of the relevant council in whose portion of the referendum area the greater or greatest (as the case may be) number of local government electors is registered;\n“business vote holder” means a person who is, or appears to the business registration officer to be likely to be, entitled to be registered to vote in the business referendum;\n“business voting register” means the register compiled under paragraph 15 and includes any additions, updates, corrections or alterations made to it in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule;\n...\n“hereditament” has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“identifier record” means a record kept under paragraph 16 and includes any corrections or alterations made to it in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule;\n“initial registration list” means the information provided by a billing authority to a business registration officer in accordance with paragraph 8 and includes any additions, updates, corrections or alterations made to it in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule;\n“invitation to register” has the meaning given in paragraph 10(1);\n“named voter” means an individual voting on behalf of a business vote holder as described in paragraph 6, and references to the named voter include the business vote holder where they are the same person;\n“qualifying citizen” means a person who is—\n(a)a qualifying Commonwealth citizen within the meaning given by section 4 of the 1983 Act,\n(b)a citizen of the Republic of Ireland,\n(c)a qualifying EU citizen within the meaning given by section 203A of the 1983 Act, or\n(d)an EU citizen with retained rights within the meaning given by section 203B of the 1983 Act;\n...\n“registration response form” has the meaning given in paragraph 10(6);\n“relative” means a spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child, or grandchild and reference to a person being related to another is construed accordingly;\n“voters list” means the list kept under paragraph 18 and includes any corrections or alterations made to it in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule; and\n“voting choices form” and “voting registration form” have the respective meanings given in paragraph 10(6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/798), regs. 1, 7, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 1 omitted (7.5.2024) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Franchise Amendment and Eligibility Review) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1150), regs. 1(2), 38(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 1 substituted (7.5.2024) by The Representation of the People (Franchise Amendment and Eligibility Review) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1150), regs. 1(2), 38(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/6/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:04.114380+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."
}