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Paragraph 4 The personal identifiers recordI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The registration officer must maintain a record (“the personal identifiers record”) of the signatures and dates of birth provided by persons whose applications under article 6(1), 7(1) or 10(4)(a) or (b) have been granted.

(2)

The personal identifiers record must be kept until the expiry of 12 months from—

(a)

the date on which a person is removed from the record kept pursuant to article 6(4) or 10(6), or

(b)

the date of the poll for the purposes of which the person’s application for an absent vote was granted under article 7(1) or 10(4)(b).

(3)

The personal identifiers record must be kept apart from the other records and lists which the registration officer is required to keep under this Order.

(4)

The personal identifiers record must contain the following information in respect of each absent voter on the postal voters list, list of proxies or proxy postal voters list—

(a)

the absent voter’s name,

(b)

the absent voter’s date of birth, and

(c)

the absent voter’s signature, or a record of waiver by the registration officer of the requirement for the signature.

(5)

The registration officer may disclose information held in the personal identifiers record to—

(a)

any candidate, or agent appointed under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2, attending proceedings on receipt of postal ballot papers, in accordance with and for the purposes referred to in paragraphs 23, 26 and 27 of that Schedule;

(b)

any person attending proceedings on receipt of postal ballot papers, who is entitled to do so by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the 2000 Political Parties Actf1, but only to the extent required to permit them to observe the proceedings.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

2000 c. 41. Sections 6A to 6D were inserted by section 29 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Section 6A was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13); paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (c. 25) and S.I. 2007/1388. Section 6C was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1). Section 6D was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020.