The Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/3406
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) This Order may be cited as the Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2006.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it was made.

(3) This Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Section 2 Persons registered in a register of electors pursuant to a service declaration

Section 15(2)(a) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 shall have effect as regards the persons mentioned in section 14(1)(a) and (d) of that Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners who have made a service declaration and are registered or entitled to be registered as electors in pursuance of it) , as if for “the period of 12 months” there were substituted “the period of 3 years”.

Section 3 Consequential amendment to the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001

For regulation 25(3) in the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 substitute—

(3) In paragraph (2) “the relevant period” means—

(a) except in cases to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, the period beginning nine months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending ten months after that date, and

(b) in the case of a person mentioned in section 14(1)(a) or (d) of the 1983 Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners registered via the service declaration procedure), the period beginning 33 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 34 months after that date.

Section 4 Consequential amendment to the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001

For regulation 25(3) in the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 substitute—

(3) In paragraph (2) “the relevant period” means—

(a) except in cases to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, the period beginning nine months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending ten months after that date, and

(b) in the case of a person mentioned in section 14(1)(a) or (d) of the 1983 Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners registered via the service declaration procedure), the period beginning 33 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 34 months after that date.