{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Provisions prescribing the arrangements to be made for the carrying out of his registration duties by a registration officer for part of a constituency, where the constituency is not coterminous with or wholly situated in a district, Welsh county or county borough or London borough.\n(2) Provisions authorising or requiring a registration officer to require persons to give information required for the purpose of his registration duties or to make declarations of any prescribed description as to matters relevant to their entitlement to be registered.\n(2A) Provision made under sub-paragraph (2) authorising or requiring a registration officer ... to—\n(a) require a person who has made an application under section 10ZC , 10ZD, 13BD, 13BE or 13C to provide evidence that he or she is the person named in the application, or\n(b) require a person who has made an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD, or any person who has an entry in a register, to provide evidence for the purpose of enabling the officer to determine whether a person is entitled to be registered in a register maintained by the officer,\nmust specify the kind of evidence that a person may be required to provide (for examples, see paragraphs 3ZA(5) and 3A(6)).\n(2B) Provision of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (2A) may authorise or require the registration officer to require a person to provide the evidence to a registration officer or to some other prescribed person (or person of a prescribed description).\n(3) Provisions authorising a registration officer, where—\n(a) he has by virtue of regulations under sub-paragraph (2) required any person registered in one of his registers to give him information, or to make any declaration, for the purpose of enabling him to determine whether the person is entitled to be so registered or to determine whether the person is the person who made the application under section 10ZC or 10ZD, and\n(b) the person has not within the prescribed period complied with that requirement in a manner which the officer considers satisfactory (or at all),\nto remove the person’s entry from the register.\n(4) Provisions authorising a registration officer to inspect, for the purpose of his registration duties, records kept (in whatever form) by—\n(a) any local or public authority of any prescribed description, or\n(b) any person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any function of, any such authority,\nand to make copies of information contained in such records.\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Provisions made under sub-paragraph (4) ... above shall have effect despite any statutory or other restriction on the disclosure of information.\n(5A) References in this paragraph to a registration officer’s registration duties include references to—\n(a) in the case of a registration officer in Great Britain, the officer’s functions—\n(i) under sections 13BD and 13BE, and\n(ii) in relation to applications under paragraph 3, 4 or 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 ...;\n(b) in the case of the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, the Chief Electoral Officer’s functions—\n(i) under section 13C, and\n(ii) in relation to applications under section 6, 7 or 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 68(18) (with ss. 54(4)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2) inserted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), s. 27(1), Sch. 4 para. 20(2)(a) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2) inserted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 24(1)(2); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)(with 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(2A)(2B) inserted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 2(2), 27(1) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(b); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2A) omitted (27.8.2022) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(a); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2A)(a) substituted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(b); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2A) substituted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(c); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(3)-(5) inserted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 24(1)(3); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(3)(a) substituted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), s. 27(1), Sch. 4 para. 20(2)(b)(i) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(3)(a) inserted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), s. 27(1), Sch. 4 para. 20(2)(b)(ii) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 1(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (1.1.2007) by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), ss. 10(2), 77, Sch. 1 para. 15(2); S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 1, 12(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 6, Sch. 2) (amendment extended to N.I. (15.9.2014) by The Anonymous Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1116), arts. 1(1), 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(4A)(4B) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 20(2)(a)(i), 28(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(5) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 20(2)(a)(ii), 28(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(5A) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(5A)(a)(ii) omitted (27.10.2025) by virtue of Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Act 2025 (c. 27), ss. 1(2), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(6)-(8) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 20(2)(a)(iii), 28(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(2)-(5) extended (N.I.) (with modifications) by Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 3, SIF 42), ss. 2, 13(6), Sch. 1 Pt. I (as amended 29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 3(6); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4)))"
    }
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      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1985/50",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+00:00"
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  "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."
}