{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-3ZA", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-3ZA.json", "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/3ZA", "kind": "paragraph", "number": "3ZA", "heading": null, "text": "(1) Provision about applications under section 10ZC , 10ZD, 13BD or 13BE, including in particular provision about—\n(a) the form and contents of applications and of any declarations to be made in connection with them;\n(b) the manner in which applications and any such declarations are to be made.\n(2) Provision made under sub-paragraph (1) may include provision—\n(a) conferring functions on registration officers, or local or public authorities, to enable applications to be made in a particular manner;\n(b) conferring other functions on registration officers;\n(c) conferring functions on the Electoral Commission.\n(2A) Provision made under sub-paragraph (1) in relation to applications within sub-paragraph (2B) may include provision—\n(a) conferring functions on the Secretary of State to enable applications to be made in a particular manner;\n(b) authorising the Secretary of State, in prescribed circumstances, to complete applications in part for people.\n(2B) The following applications are within this sub-paragraph—\n(a) an application for registration in, or alteration of—\n(i) a register of parliamentary electors,\n(ii) a register of local government electors in England, or\n(iii) a register of local government electors in Scotland or Wales, where the application is submitted through the UK digital service;\n(b) an application under section 13BD or 13BE.\n(3) Provision requiring a person making an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD—\n(a) to provide evidence that he or she is the person named in the application;\n(b) to provide evidence of entitlement to be registered.\n(3A) Provision requiring a person making an application under section 13BD or 13BE to provide evidence that the person is the person named in the application.\n(4) Provision made under sub-paragraph (3) or (3A) must specify the kind of evidence that a person is required to provide.\n(5) Examples of the evidence that may be specified include a person's date of birth or national insurance number.\n(6) Provision made under sub-paragraph (3) or (3A) may require a person to provide the evidence to a registration officer or to some other prescribed person (or person of a prescribed description).\n(7) In sub-paragraph (2B)(a)(iii), “the UK digital service” means a digital service provided by a Minister of the Crown for the registration of electors, and the reference to an application submitted through the UK digital service is a reference to an application submitted using that service as an intermediary.", "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3ZA 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(3), 27(1) (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2014/414, art. 5(b); S.I. 2014/2439, art. 2(b)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(1) substituted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(a); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(1)(b) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(b); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(2A)(2B) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(3); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(3A) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(4); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F6", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(4) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(5); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F7", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(6) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(6); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F8", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3ZA(7) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(7); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)" }, { "type": "C", "label": "C1", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3ZA: function exercisable by the Scottish Ministers concurrently with a Minister of the Crown (20.3.2015) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/692), arts. 2, 5(3)(b) (with art. 6)" } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "ukpga/2022/37", "affecting_title": "Elections Act 2022" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "asc/2024/5", "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "asc/2024/5", "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "asc/2024/5", "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "asc/2024/5", "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024" }, { "type": "applied", "affecting": "ukpga/1985/50", "affecting_title": "Representation of the People Act 1985" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/schedule/2/paragraph/3ZA", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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." }