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28.(1) [Registers of electors] shall be prepared and published in accordance with this Part and the Registration Rules. Subs.(2) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.18 sch.3 (3) [One register of electors containing the names of all electors in Northern Ireland shall be published in every year commencing with the year 1973]. In relation to any register, the year in which that register is published is in this Act referred to as a "publication year" and the year preceding the publication year is referred to as a "registration year". Subs.(4) rep. by 1971 c.4 (NI) s.5(3) sch. (5) The provisions of the Registration Rules may be varied by an Order in Council either generally or in relation to any register or part of a register to be published in a publication year specified in the Order; but the Governor shall not be advised to make any such Order unless a draft thereof (which shall be subject to affirmative resolution) has been laid before Parliament. (6). . ., a register shall come into force on the sixteenth day of February in the publication year and shall be used for any election initiated on or after that day and before the coming into force of the next succeeding register but where the publication of a register is postponed under Rule 2 of the Registration Rules the day following the day on which it is published shall be substituted for the said sixteenth day of February. (7). . . for the purpose only of determining whether a member of a local authority is qualified to continue to be such member for the remainder of his term of office by virtue of his being a local elector, the register in force [at the time of his becoming such a member] shall continue in force until the election day for that local authority in the next local election year.
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