The Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2010

• Citation: S.I. 2010/882
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2010.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

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 (service declaration) shall have effect in relation to the persons mentioned in section 14(1)(a) and (d) of that Act (members of the forces and their spouses or civil partners) as if for “the period of 12 months” there was substituted “the period of 5 years” .

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

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

(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) who is registered in pursuance of a service declaration, the period beginning 57 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 58 months after that date.

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

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

(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) who is registered in pursuance of a service declaration, the period beginning 57 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 58 months after that date.

Section 5 Consequential amendment to the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

For regulation 26(3)(b) of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008 substitute—

(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) who is registered in pursuance of a service declaration, the period beginning 57 months after the date when the existing entry in a register of the person in question first takes effect and ending 58 months after that date.

Section 6 Revocation

The Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2006 and the Service Voters’ Registration Period (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 are revoked.