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1918. SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Sections 13, 14 (1). REGISTRATION RULES.

Form of register

Separate part of register for each registration unit.

1. The register shall be framed in separate parts for each registration unit in the registration area.

The registration unit shall be the parish where the parish is wholly contained in one voting area, and where a parish 1s contained in more than one voting area, shall be each part of the parish contained in a separate voting area; and for the purposes of this rule the expression "voting area" means any polling district, electoral division, borough, county district other than a borough, and any ward of a borough, county district, or parish, and any other area from which a separate election at which the register is to be used is held.

Separate divisions for parlimentary and local government electors.

2. The register shall, as respects each registration unit, contain the names of those who are entitled to vote as parliamentary electors and of those who are entitled to vote as local government electors, but shall be framed so as to show in separate divisions the names of those who are entitled to vote both as parliamentary and local government electors, the names of those who are entitled to vote as parliamentary electors but not as local government electors, and the names of those who are entitled to vote as local government electors but not as parliamentary electors.

Where a person whose name is entered a s a local government elector in any registration unit is not entitled to vote in respect of that entry at the local government elections for all the local government electoral areas which comprise that unit, the registration officer shall place a mark against his name, with a note to signify that the person against whose name the mark is placed is not entitled to vote for the local government elections mentioned in the note, and any such note shall be deemed to be part of the register.

Absent voters list. 3. The registration officer shall prepare and add as a supplement to the register a separate list for the whole registration area. or, where the area includes more than one constituency, for each constituency in the area, of persons entitled to vote as absent voters (in this Act referred to as the absent voters list.) without, however, removing the names of those voters from any other part of the register. Every such list shall be made up according to polling districts.

Register to be made up in street or alphabetical order. 4. Where the registration unit is situated in a parliamentary borough, the names in the register shall be arranged in street order, unless the authority whose clerk the registration officer is or by whom he is appointed considers that, having regard to the general character of the area forming the registration unit, arrangement in street order is inapplicable; and where the registration unit is situated in a parliamentary county, the names in the register shall be arranged in alphabetical order, unless the said authority considers that, having regard to the general character of the area forming the registration unit, arrangement in street order is possible and convenient.