ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 3 Application of Part II of First Schedule.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 3

Application of Part II of First Schedule.

3.(1) A person who on the qualifying date is residing in a constituency [or in
a local government electoral area] and who but for his having been a member of
the forces or a Crown servant or a merchant seaman would have satisfied the
requirements specified in the first column of Part II of the First Schedule
shall be deemed to satisfy those requirements.

(2) A person who has lodged a service declaration with the registration
officer under the third column of Part II of the First Schedule or from whom a
service declaration has been accepted under Rule 24 of the Registration Rules
shall, until the contrary is proved, be treated for the purposes of
registration as being a British subject, or a person to whom section one
hundred and twenty-one applies, of the age appearing from the declaration and
as not being subject to any legal incapacity except as appears therefrom.

(3) Where a service declaration appearing to be properly made out and attested
is transmitted to the registration officer in the proper manner, the declarant
shall, until the contrary is proved, be treated for the purposes of
registration as having been from the date of the declaration or such later day
if any as appears therefrom, and as continuing to be, qualified as a
service elector.

(4) If a person makes a service declaration declaring to more than one
address, or makes more than one service declaration bearing the same date and
declaring to different addresses, the declaration or declarations shall be
void.

(5) A service declaration may at any time be cancelled by the declarant and,
subject to sub-section (4), a service declaration bearing a later date shall,
without any express cancellation, cancel a declaration bearing an earlier
date.

(6) A service declaration, if not cancelled, shall continue in force so long
as the declarant is qualified as a service elector, except in so far as
regulations provide that it shall cease to be in force on a change in the
circumstances giving the qualification.

S.4 rep. by 1969 c.26 (NI) s.6 sch.2 Pt.I

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