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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-3C",
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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/3C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer conducting a canvass for the purposes of a register of local government electors in Scotland or Wales to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining information where no response is received in respect of a particular address.\n(1A) Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer conducting a canvass for the purposes of a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain, or a register of local government electors in England or in Scotland or in Wales—\n(a) to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining any information that a registration officer may or must require persons to give by virtue of regulations under paragraph 1B(1) in respect of a particular address,\n(b) to take specified steps for the purpose of obtaining information where no response is received in respect of a particular address.\n(2) Provision authorising or requiring a registration officer in Great Britain to take specified steps to encourage a person to make an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD in response to an invitation to do so made by the officer.\n(3) Examples of the steps that a registration officer may be authorised or required to take under sub-paragraph (1), (1A) or (2) include writing to the person or visiting the person's address to speak to the person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3C 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(5) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(m); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) substituted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) omitted (S.) (3.3.2020) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/62), arts. 1(1), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1) omitted (E.W.) (22.1.2020) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/50), regs. 2, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (S.) (3.3.2020) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/62), arts. 1(1), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(1A) inserted (E.W.) (22.1.2020) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/50), regs. 2, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3C(3) inserted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 5(3)(c)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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