SCHEDULE 1 Voter Identification

SCHEDULE 1 Voter Identification

Section 1

Amendments of RPA 1983

1

RPA 1983 is amended as follows.

2

After section 13BC insert—

“13BD Electoral identity document: Great Britain

(1)     An application for an electoral identity document may be made by a person who—

(a)     is or has applied to be registered in a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain or a register of local government electors in England, or

(b)     is or has applied to be registered in a register of local government electors in Wales and—

(i)     is entitled to vote or, as the case may be, will on being registered be entitled to vote, at an election of a police and crime commissioner for a police area in Wales (see section 52(1A) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011), or

(ii)     will be entitled to vote or, as the case may be, will on being registered be entitled to vote, at such an election on attaining the age of 18.

(2)     An application must be made to a registration officer who maintains a register referred to in subsection (1) in which the applicant is or has applied to be registered.

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