The Voter Identification Regulations 2022

means the petition signing place allotted to the applicant in accordance with regulation 16 of the 2016 Regulations;

means— a the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the constituency of the MP to whom the petition relates is situated, or b where the petition relates to a constituency for which there is more than one registration officer, any of those officers. 1K Subject to paragraph (1L), a reference in this rule to a document that is a specified document is a reference to the document regardless of any expiry date relating to it. 1L Paragraph (1K) does not apply to a temporary electoral identity document where the date for which the temporary electoral identity document is issued is before the designated day. 1M No person other than the petition cl

means— (a) where the registration officer is appointed for an area in England or Wales, a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales;

has the same meaning as in regulation 17(6);

means an election for the return of a mayor as provided for in an order made under Schedule 5B to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;

means the requirements corresponding to the voter identification requirements that have effect in relation to combined authority mayoral elections by virtue of rules made under paragraph 12 of Schedule 5B to the 2009 Act. b in subsection (6), after paragraph (b) there were inserted— c in the case of a report under subsection (4) to which subsection (5A) applies, information provided to the Secretary of State under any provision of rules made under paragraph 12 of Schedule 5B to the 2009 Act corresponding to rule 40B of the parliamentary elections rules.”

means an election for the mayor as provided for in regulations made under Schedule 2 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;

includes an electronic copy;

means the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the Isle of Man.

means the time stated in regulation 56(2) or (3) after which, ignoring any other paragraphs in that regulation, an application under paragraph 4(2) or 6(7) or (8) of Schedule 4 must be disregarded or refused (as the case may be) by a registration officer;

means the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service, which is the digital service provided by the Secretary of State for the purpose (amongst other purposes) of processing online applications for electoral identity documents under section 13BD of the 1983 Act and for verifying information in accordance with regulation 6;

means that document as designed by the Electoral Commission in accordance with regulation 15(1)(b) or (d) or (4);

has the same meaning as in regulation 16(2).

has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the Representation of the People Act 2000.

means a false document made to resemble a specified document. 1J In this rule, a “specified document”— a except in the case of a voter who has an anonymous entry in the register of electors, means a document which for the time being falls within the list specified in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);

has the meaning given in regulation 71A.”

has the meaning given in paragraph 16A.”

means— (a) an application for an electoral identity document under section 13BD of the 1983 Act, or (b) an application for an anonymous elector’s document under section 13BE of the 1983 Act;

has the meaning given in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003;

means an entry in the record kept in accordance with regulation 20 in respect of an anonymous elector’s document, or an electoral identity document, issued by a registration officer;

means an election in England for the return of an elected mayor as defined by section 9H(1) of the Local Government Act 2000;

means the requirements corresponding to the voter identification requirements that have effect in relation to mayoral elections in England by virtue of rules made under section 9HE of the Local Government Act 2000.

has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of 2016 Regulations;

means a person who, on the day on which this regulation comes into force, has an anonymous entry in—

has the meaning given by section 1 of the Recall of MPs Act 2015;

includes a part of the record.

means an electoral registration officer;

means the address provided by the applicant in accordance with regulation 4(1)(b).

means—

means—

means an election, petition or referendum listed in the first column of the following table;

means details of the documents the voter needs to produce when applying for a ballot paper, namely— a in the case of an elector (other than an elector with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time being referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);

means an election to return a member of the Senedd Cymru for a Senedd constituency or an election to return members of the Senedd for a Senedd electoral region (or both);

has the meaning given by section 9(2) of the Recall of MPs Act 2015;

has the meaning given by regulation 10 of the 2016 Regulations;

has the meaning given in rule 37(1H) and (1K) of the elections rules.”

means an electoral identity document that has a temporary validity, as designed by the Electoral Commission in accordance with regulation 15(1)(c) or (d) or (4).

means the Representation of the People Act 1983;

means the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016;

means the Appendix to these Rules contained in Part 9 of this Schedule;

has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018;

means the list of persons kept in pursuance of—

means the list of persons kept in pursuance of—

has the meaning given in regulation 18(4)(b).

means the period—

means a person entitled to vote on his or her own behalf.”

means rule 37(1A) to (1T) of the elections rules.

means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or a bank holiday;