Regulation 15

After regulation 28 of the Regulations of 1986, there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Reminders to overseas electors

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (3) below, the registration officer shall, not earlier than 1st June and not later than 31st July in any year, send to a person registered in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration in the current register of parliamentary electors a reminder of the need to make a fresh declaration in order to be so registered in the subsequent register.

(2)

A reminder under paragraph (1) above shall be sent to the address given in accordance with regulation 23(1) above in the overseas elector’s declaration by virtue of which the overseas elector is currently registered or, where he has subsequently notified the registration officer that he has changed his address to some other address outside the United Kingdom, to that address.

(3)

Paragraph (1) above does not apply in respect of a person there described where—

(a)

the registration officer has already received from him an overseas elector’s declaration made with reference to the next qualifying date, or

(b)

that person has notified the registration officer that he is resident in the United Kingdom, or

(c)

the period of twenty years referred to in section 1(3)(c) of the Act of 1985^f1has expired.

• For the purposes of the application of this regulation by regulation 14(5) above, this paragraph shall have effect as if, in addition to the modifications made by that regulation, the words “section 3(4)(c)” ^f2are substituted for the words “section 1(3)(c)”.”.