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PART 1 – FRANCHISE AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS 5

1 Franchise .......................................................................................................................... 5
2 Register of electors .......................................................................................................... 5
3 Entitlement to registration ............................................................................................. 6
4 Registration officer ......................................................................................................... 6
5 Provision of assistance to Electoral Registration Officer ........................................... 7
PART 2 – REVISION OF REGISTERS OF ELECTORS 7

6 Revision of registers ....................................................................................................... 7
7 Preparation of registers .................................................................................................. 8
8 Publication of registers and revisions .......................................................................... 9
PART 3 – CLAIMS, OBJECTIONS AND CORRECTION OF THE

REGISTERS 10

9 Claims and objections .................................................................................................. 10
10 Determination of claims and objections .................................................................... 11
11 Alterations to registers of electors .............................................................................. 12
PART 4 – GENERAL 12

12 Restrictions on use of registers ................................................................................... 12
13 Supply of information contained in register ............................................................. 13
14 Financial provisions ..................................................................................................... 15
15 Interpretation ................................................................................................................. 15
16 Public documents.......................................................................................................... 16
17 Consequential amendments and repeals .................................................................. 16
18 Short title and commencement ................................................................................... 16
SCHEDULE 1 19

CLAIMS, OBJECTIONS AND APPEALS 19
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SCHEDULE 2 21

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 21
SCHEDULE 3 21

CONSEQUENTIAL REPEALS 21
ENDNOTES 23

TABLE OF LEGISLATION HISTORY 23
TABLE OF RENUMBERED PROVISIONS 23
TABLE OF ENDNOTE REFERENCES 23

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REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS ACT 2006

Received Royal Assent: 12 July 2006
Passed: Date not available
Commenced: See Endnotes
AN ACT
to repeal and replace the enactments relating to the franchise and
registration of electors; to amend the law relating to the preparation of registers
of electors; and for connected purposes.
EDITORIAL NOTE:
The amendments made to this Act by the Representation of the
People (Amendment) Act 2015, which come into operation on 23 September 2015,
apply only for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election
to the House of Keys and will not apply to any by-election to the existing House of
Keys. Accordingly, the previous version of this Act will continue to apply to any by-
election to the existing House (see SD 2015/0303).
PART 1 – FRANCHISE AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS

1 Franchise

[1984/3/1(1) and (3)(b)]
(1) Any person who is registered in the register of electors for an electoral
area shall be entitled to vote in an election in that area, unless that person
is subject to any legal incapacity to vote.
(2) No person shall vote more than once in the same election.
2 Register of electors

[1984/3/1(4)]
(1) Registers of electors shall be made of all persons entitled Registers to
vote at elections in accordance with this Act and regulations of electors
under this Act.
(2) The registers of electors under the Registration of Electors Act 1984, as it
had effect immediately before the date on which this Act comes into
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operation, shall, on that date, have effect as the registers of electors under
this Act until revised in accordance with this Act.1

3 Entitlement to registration

[1984/3/1(2) and (3)(a)]
(1) Any qualifying person shall be entitled to be registered in the register of
electors for an electoral area.
(2) A person is a qualifying person if —
(a) on the relevant registration date that person —
(i) has his or her usual place of abode in that electoral area,
and has, during the whole of the preceding 12 months, had
his or her usual place of abode in the Island, and
(ii) is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote; and
(b) at any time between the relevant revision of the register under
Part 2 and the subsequent revision, that person shall have attained
the age of 16 years; and
(c) no enactment disqualifies that person for registration in the
register of electors for the electoral area.
(3) A person may only be registered —
(a) in one polling district for elections to the Keys; and
(b) in one polling district for all elections to local authorities in the
Island.
For the sake of clarity, the polling district in which a person is registered
under paragraph (a) need not be the same as that in paragraph (b).2

4 Registration officer

[1984/3/2 and 15(1) and (2)]
(1) The Chief Secretary must appoint a person employed in the Cabinet
Office as the Electoral Registration Officer to perform the functions in
subsection (2) and to perform such other functions in connection with
elections as may be imposed by any other enactment.3

(2) The functions of the Electoral Registration Officer under this Act are —
(a) to prepare, maintain and revise the registers of electors for each
polling district of all persons who are entitled to be registered in
the register of electors for each constituency in accordance with
this Act and regulations; and
(b) to undertake the other functions conferred by this Act and
regulations.4

(3) If the clerk of any local authority, refuses or knowingly fails to carry out
any duty imposed by this Act and regulations, he or she shall for each
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such refusal or failure be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding £1,000.5

(4) A prosecution for an offence under this section may be brought only by
or with the consent of the Attorney General.
5 Provision of assistance to Electoral Registration Officer
6

[1984/3/4(1) and (2) and 3(6) and (7)]
(1) The registrar of each registration district appointed for the purpose of
registering births and deaths pursuant to the Civil Registration Act 1984
shall supply to the Electoral Registration Officer on the prescribed dates
in each year lists of all the persons of full age whose deaths have been
registered in the registration district since the previous list was
supplied.7

(2) Every local authority shall assist the Electoral Registration Officer in the
preparation of the register of electors for any polling district which falls
wholly or partly within the district of the authority.8

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer may require any householder or
person owning or occupying any premises, or the agent of any such
person, to give information required for the purpose of the Electoral
Registration Officer’s functions under this Act.9

(4) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a
requirement under subsection (3), or gives false information in
pursuance of such a requirement, shall be guilty of an offence and liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000.
PART 2 – REVISION OF REGISTERS OF ELECTORS

6 Revision of registers

[1984/3/7(5)]
(1) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, not later than the prescribed
dates in each year, revise the registers of electors in accordance with this
Act and regulations.10

(2) The revised registers of electors shall be in such form as the Treasury
may determine.
(3) Regulations may make provision in respect of the revised registers of
electors and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of that
power, may include provision —
(a) for the preparation and making of revisions to the registers;
(b) about the particulars of each elector to be included in the revised
registers;
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(c) for the order in which electors appear in the revised registers.
(4) The Electoral Registration Officer shall place the letter “J” against the
name entered in a register of electors of any person who is qualified to
serve as a juror.11

(5) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
send to the Chief Registrar —
(a) a list of jurors for each sheading, made up in alphabetical order of
the names marked “J” in the register of electors applicable to such
sheading but separating on the list, in accordance with any
directions of the Clerk of the Rolls, the names of those persons
who may apparently be related to one another; and12

(b) a copy of every objection under section 9(1)(c) in respect of any
such list.13

7 Preparation of registers

[1984/3/13]
(1) On the completion of the register, the Electoral Registration Officer shall,
in accordance with regulations, place the registers of electors for all of the
polling districts in each constituency in order and allocate to each entry
on the registers a unique register number.14

(2) On the completion of each revision, the Electoral Registration Officer
shall, in accordance with regulations, allocate to each entry on the
registers a unique register number.15

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer shall sign the registers of electors, so
ordered and numbered, for each constituency, and shall deposit the same
in the General Registry not later than such date as is prescribed, and the
said registers shall, subject to paragraph 14 of Schedule 1, constitute the
register of electors for that constituency as from such date as is
prescribed until the next revision.16

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
place copies of the revised registers of electors for all of the polling
districts in each district or, if a district is divided into wards, in each
ward of the district, in order and number the names on such registers in
accordance with subsection (5), and shall, in accordance with regulations,
send such copies, so ordered and numbered, and certified by the
Electoral Registration Officer to be true copies of such registers, to the
clerk of the local authority for the district.17

(5) The names on the copies of registers prepared under subsection (4) for
any district shall be numbered in series by polling districts, unless the
district is divided into wards, in which case they shall be numbered in
series by wards, but if the local authority so directs, the names shall be
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numbered in one series for the entire district without reference to polling
districts or wards.
(6) The certified copies of the register of electors sent under subsection (4)
shall, subject to paragraph 14 of Schedule 1, constitute the register of
electors to vote at any local election in the district in question, or the
registers of electors to vote at any local election in the respective wards of
the district, as the case may be, until the register is next revised.
(7) The registers of electors for the respective wards of the borough of
Douglas shall constitute the ward rolls, and the ward rolls together shall
constitute the burgess roll of the borough, for the period referred to in
subsection (6).
(8) No register of electors shall be invalidated by reason that it has not been
made available for inspection for the full time required by this Act, or by
reason of any default on the part of the Electoral Registration Officer.18

(9) If for any reason —
(a) no register of electors has been prepared for a polling district; or
(b) a register of electors has not been made available for inspection at
all; or
(c) a register of electors has not been revised,
that part of the register of electors for the electoral area in question which
is applicable to that polling district which was previously in force shall
be taken to be the relevant part of the register of electors for that polling
district.
(10) In this section “revised” means revised in accordance with section 6 and,
if required, altered under section 11.
8 Publication of registers and revisions

[1984/3/5]
(1) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
cause a copy of the register of electors maintained in accordance with
section 2 to be made available for public inspection free of charge
(a) at such places in each district to which the register relates as the
Treasury may determine; and
(b) at the office of the Treasury between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every
weekday other than a Saturday,
during such periods as may be prescribed with respect to each revision.19

(2) The Electoral Registration Officer shall cause public notice to be given,
during the 7 days before each relevant registration date, in at least 2
newspapers published and circulating in the Island, and in such other
manner as the Treasury may direct, of the places where the registers of
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electors, and the lists of claims and objections relating thereto, may be
inspected.20

(3) Every notice given under subsection (2) —
(a) shall specify the manner in which and the time within which
claims and objections in respect of the registers of electors may be
made; and
(b) shall state that the names of persons marked “J” in the registers of
electors will be included in the jurors’ lists, and that such persons
will, subject to revision of such jurors’ lists in pursuance of the
Jury Act 1980, be liable to serve as jurors.
(4) The Electoral Registration Officer shall send to each local authority a
copy of every register of electors for any polling district which falls
wholly or partly within the district of the authority, and the authority
shall notify the Electoral Registration Officer of every error and omission
which it has discovered or, as the case may be, that it has discovered no
error or omission in the register.21

PART 3 – CLAIMS, OBJECTIONS AND CORRECTION OF THE

REGISTERS

9 Claims and objections

[1984/3/7]
(1) Any person who —
(a) claims to be entitled to be entered in a register of electors; or
(b) is so entered, or claims to be entitled to be so entered, and
objects —
(i) to the entry of another person in the register ;or
(ii) to a claim by another person under paragraph (a); or
(c) objects to having his or her name marked “J” in the register;
may make a claim or objection in writing to the Electoral Registration
Officer.22

(2) A claim under subsection (1)(a), or an objection under subsection (1)(b)
shall be made within the prescribed period.
(3) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, on receipt of a claim or objection
under this section maintain such records in such form and containing
such information as may be prescribed.23

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
cause copies of lists of such claims and objections to be available for
public inspection free of charge at such times and places as may be
prescribed, and shall cause copies of all such claims and objections to be
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available for public inspection free of charge at the office of the
Treasury.24

10 Determination of claims and objections

[1984/3/8]
(1) If the Electoral Registration Officer is of the opinion that the particulars
given in a claim or objection are insufficient, the Electoral Registration
Officer may ask for further information to be given within 7 days of the
request, and no further action need be taken in respect of that claim or
objection unless such information is supplied within that period.25

(2) If the Electoral Registration Officer is of the opinion that a claim may be
allowed without a hearing, and there is no objection to the claim, the
claim shall be allowed, and the claimant notified accordingly.26

(3) If the Electoral Registration Officer is of the opinion that an objector is
not entitled to object, the Electoral Registration Officer shall disallow the
objection, and shall notify each person concerned accordingly.27

(4) If the Electoral Registration Officer is of the opinion that a claim or
objection cannot be allowed because —
(a) the matter has been concluded by the decision of a court of
competent jurisdiction; or
(b) the particulars given in the claim or objection do not entitle the
claimant or objector to succeed;
the Electoral Registration Officer may give notice in writing to each
person concerned of the opinion and the grounds thereof, and stating
that the claim or objection will be disallowed unless a person concerned,
within 7 days from the date of service of the notice, requires the Electoral
Registration Officer in writing to refer the matter for a hearing, and if no
such requirement is made within that period, the claim or objection may
be disallowed.28

(5) Subject to subsection (1), in any case in which the Electoral Registration
Officer does not allow or disallow a claim or objection under
subsection (2), (3) or (4), the matter shall be referred for a hearing under
Schedule 1, and the Electoral Registration Officer shall give to each
person concerned notice in writing of the time and place at which the
matter will be dealt with under that Schedule.29

(6) In this section —
“claim” means a claim under section 9(1)(a);
“person concerned” —
(i) in relation to a claim, or an objection under
section 9(1)(b)(ii) to a claim, means the claimant and the
objector (if any);
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(ii) in relation to an objection under section 9(1)(b)(i), means
the objector and the person with respect to whom the
objection is made;
“objection” means an objection under section 9(1)(b).
11 Alterations to registers of electors

[1984/3/9]
(1) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
make any alteration to a register of electors which is required —
(a) to carry out a decision of the Electoral Registration Officer with
respect to any claim or objection;30

(b) to carry out a decision or order under Schedule 1 with respect to
any claim or objection;
(c) to correct any clerical error;
(d) to correct any misnomer or inaccurate description;
(e) to delete the name of any person who the Electoral Registration
Officer is satisfied has died,31

and shall sign the registers as so altered.32

(2) Where it appears to the Electoral Registration Officer that it is necessary
to make any alteration to a register of electors (other than an alteration
under subsection (1)) in order to ensure that no person —
(a) shall be incorrectly registered; or
(b) shall be registered when not entitled;
the Electoral Registration Officer shall, in accordance with regulations,
give to the person affected notice in writing of the proposed alteration,
stating that that person may, within such period as is prescribed, in
writing require the Electoral Registration Officer to refer the matter for a
hearing.33

(3) If no requirement is made pursuant to a notice under subsection (2), the
Electoral Registration Officer may make the necessary alteration to the
register of electors, but otherwise the Electoral Registration Officer shall
refer the matter for a hearing under Schedule 1, and shall give notice in
writing to the person affected of the time and place at which the matter
will be heard by the High Bailiff.34

PART 4 – GENERAL

12 Restrictions on use of registers

[1984/3/6(1), (2) and (4)]
(1) Regulations under this Act may —
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(a) impose prohibitions or restrictions relating to the extent (if any) to
which persons inspecting the registers of electors in accordance
with section 8 may —
(i) make copies of the registers,
(ii) disclose any information contained in them to other
persons, or
(iii) make use of any such information otherwise than for any
purposes specified in the regulations;
(b) imposing, in relation to persons involved in the preparation of the
registers of electors, prohibitions with respect to supplying copies
of the registers and disclosing or making use of information
contained in them.
(2) Regulations under this section may make it an offence punishable on
summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £5,000 for a person to
contravene any prohibition or restriction imposed under subsection (1)
or to do so in any prescribed circumstances.
(3) In this section any reference to a register of electors includes a reference
to any part of it.
13 Supply of information contained in register

[1984/3/14(1), (2) and (4)]
(1) Regulations shall make provision —
(a) requiring the Electoral Registration Officer to prepare, in addition
to the registers of electors under section 7 (“the full registers”),
versions of those registers which omit the names and addresses of
electors by or on behalf of whom requests have been made to
have their names and addresses excluded from that version of it
(“the edited registers”);35

(b) specifying a form of words to be used by the Electoral
Registration Officer for the purpose of —
(i) explaining to persons registered or applying to be
registered, or persons acting on behalf of such persons, the
purposes for which the full register and the edited register
may each be used, and
(ii) ascertaining whether the exclusion of their names and
addresses from the edited register is requested by or on
behalf of such persons;36

(c) requiring copies of the full register and other documents, or
prescribed parts of them, to be available for inspection by the
public at such places as may be prescribed;
(d) requiring the Chief Registrar —
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(i) to supply to such persons as may be prescribed copies of
the full register and other documents, or prescribed parts
of them, whether free of charge or on payment of a
prescribed fee;
(ii) to supply to any persons copies of the edited register, or
any prescribed part of it, on payment of a prescribed fee;
(e) specifying, in relation to any description of persons prescribed
under paragraph (d)(i), the purposes for which copies supplied to
such persons under such regulations, or information contained in
them, may be used whether by such persons or by employees or
other persons authorised by them in accordance with the
regulations to have access to such copies or information contained
in them;
(f) imposing prohibitions or restrictions relating to the extent (if any)
to which persons inspecting the full register in accordance with
regulations under paragraph (c) may make copies of the register;
(g) imposing prohibitions or restrictions relating to the extent (if any)
to which persons to whom copies of the full register are supplied
(whether in accordance with regulations under paragraph (d)(i) or
in accordance with any other enactment) may —
(i) supply those copies, or otherwise disclose any information
contained in them, to other persons, or
(ii) make use of any such information otherwise than for any
purposes specified in the regulations or (as the case may
be) for which the copies have been supplied in accordance
with any such provision;
(h) imposing, in relation to persons —
(i) to whom copies of the full register have been supplied, or
information contained in such copies has been disclosed, in
accordance with regulations made in pursuance of this
paragraph, or
(ii) who otherwise have access to such copies or information,
prohibitions or restrictions corresponding to those which may be
imposed by virtue of paragraph (g);
(i) imposing, in relation to persons involved in the preparation of the
full register, prohibitions with respect to supplying copies of the
full register and disclosing information contained in it.
(2) Regulations under this section may make it an offence punishable on
summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £5,000 —
(a) for a person to contravene any prohibition or restriction imposed
under subsection (1)(f), (g), (h) or (i) or to do so in any prescribed
circumstances, or
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(b) where such a contravention occurs on the part of a person in the
employment, or otherwise under the direction or control, of a
body corporate or unincorporate, for a director of the body, or any
other person concerned with its management, to fail to take such
steps as it is reasonable for that director or manager to take to
secure the operation of procedures designed to prevent, so far as
reasonably practicable, the occurrence of such contraventions on
the part of such persons.
(3) In this section any reference to the full register includes a reference to
any part of it.
14 Financial provisions

[1984/3/16]
(1) The expenses incurred for the purposes of this Act by the Treasury, the
Clerk of the Rolls, the High Bailiff and the Electoral Registration Officer
shall be paid out of moneys provided by Tynwald.37

(2) The Treasury may by regulations prescribe any fees which may be
prescribed for the purposes of section 13(1)(d) and such fees shall be paid
into and form part of the General Revenue of the Island.
15 Interpretation

[1984/3/17; 1984/3/1(2) and (3)(a)]
(1) In this Act —
“constituency
” means a constituency for the purposes of the Representation of the
People Act 1995;
“district
”, except in the expressions “polling district” and “registration

district
”, means a town district, village district or parish district, and
includes the borough of Douglas;
“election
” means a national election or a local election, and includes a by-
election;
“electoral area
”, in relation to a national election, means a constituency, and in
relation to a local election, —
(a) if the district of the local authority in question is divided into
wards, a ward of the district;
(b) otherwise the district;
“Electoral Registration Officer
” means the person appointed to be Electoral
Registration Officer under section 4;38

“legal incapacity
” includes any disqualification for voting imposed by any
enactment;
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“local election
” means an election of a member or members of a local authority,
and in relation to the borough of Douglas, means an election of a
councillor or councillors of the borough;
“national election
” means an election of a member or members of the Keys;39

“polling district
” means (subject to subsection (2)) a polling district for the
purposes of the Representation of the People Act 1995;
“prescribed
” means, except in section 14(2), prescribed by regulations made by
the Council of Ministers under this Act and “regulations
” shall be
construed accordingly;
“register of electors
”, in relation to an electoral area, means the register of
electors constituted for that area pursuant to section 7(3) or (6), as the
case may be, and in relation to a polling district means the relevant part
of the register;
“registration officer
” [Repealed]40

“relevant registration date
” means a date that is prescribed for the purpose.
(2) Where a constituency is not divided into polling districts, any reference
in this Act to a polling district of that constituency shall be construed as a
reference to the entire constituency.
(3) Other expressions in this Act have the same meanings as in the
Representation of the People Act 1995.
16 Public documents

(1) The Council of Ministers may make regulations for the purpose of giving
effect to this Act.
(2) Regulations under this Act shall not come into operation unless they are
approved by Tynwald.
17 Consequential amendments and repeals

(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 are amended in accordance with
that Schedule.
(2) The enactments mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 3 are repealed to the
extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
18 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Registration of Electors Act 2006.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Treasury may by
order appoint.41

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(3) An order under subsection (2) may make such transitional provisions or
savings as the Treasury may consider necessary in connection with any
provision brought into force by the order.
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SCHEDULE 1

CLAIMS, OBJECTIONS AND APPEALS

Section 10(5)
Hearing and determination of claims, objections, etc
1. The High Bailiff shall hear and determine —
(a) all claims and objections under section 9(1)(a) and (b); and
(b) all proposals for alterations under section 11(2);
which are referred for a hearing under this Schedule.
2. A hearing under this Schedule —
(a) shall be held in public; and
(b) subject to paragraph 6(a), shall be held on or before such dates as
may be prescribed.
3. At least 14 days before a hearing, the Electoral Registration Officer shall cause
public notice to be given, in at least 2 newspapers published and circulating in the
Island, and in such other manner as the Treasury may direct, of the time and place at
which the hearing will be held.42

4. The following persons shall be entitled to appear and to be heard, either in
person or by an advocate, at a revision court —
(a) in the case of a claim or objection under section 9(1)(a) or (b), a
person concerned (as defined in section 10(6));
(b) in the case of a proposed alteration under section 11(2), the person
affected;
(c) in any case, the Electoral Registration Officer,43

and any person so entitled may make written representations.
5. The Electoral Registration Officer shall cause every person referred to in
paragraph 4(a) and (b) to be notified in writing of the decision or order of the High
Bailiff with respect to the claim, objection or alteration in question.44

Powers of High Bailiff
6. The High Bailiff shall have power —
(a) to adjourn from time to time, or from place to place;
(b) to take evidence on oath, and for that purpose to administer oaths,
or to require a person examined to make and subscribe a
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declaration of truth of the matter in respect of which that person is
examined;
(c) to require the attendance, by summons under the hand of the
High Bailiff, of any person, and by such summons to require the
production by any person of all such books and documents as the
High Bailiff may consider necessary, and to require any person so
summoned to answer any questions touching the matter before
the court;
(d) to award costs against any person whom the High Bailiff
considers to have made or attempted to sustain a groundless,
frivolous or vexatious claim or objection, and to grant execution
therefor; and
(e) except where otherwise provided by this Act, to proceed in the
same manner as, and to exercise all the powers of, a returning
officer of a constituency at an election.
7. If an appeal on a point of law is made from the decision of the High Bailiff
under this Act, any execution for costs granted in the same case shall be suspended,
and shall follow the decision on appeal unless the High Court otherwise directs.
8. If execution for costs is granted against any person under paragraph 6(d), the
High Bailiff may refuse to hear any other objection made by the same person until the
amount of such execution has been paid or secured to the satisfaction of the court.
9. Any summons, execution or order issued, granted or made by the High Bailiff
under this Act shall be served, recovered or enforced in like manner and by the same
officers, and shall have the like effect, as if issued, imposed, granted or made by the
High Court.
10. Every witness summoned to give evidence at a revision court shall, if not in
contempt, be entitled to receive wages from the person at whose instance the witness is
summoned.
Appeals
11. Any person entitled to appear before the High Bailiff with respect to a claim,
objection or alteration, who is aggrieved by the decision of the High Bailiff thereon,
may, having exercised the right to appear before or to make written representations to
the High Bailiff, within 7 days of receipt of the notification of the decision, question the
decision on the ground that it is wrong in law by requiring the High Bailiff to state a
case for the opinion of the High Court.
12. The Electoral Registration Officer may appear by an advocate in any appeal.45

13. No costs shall be awarded against the Electoral Registration Officer in any
appeal under this Schedule unless the High Court is satisfied that the decision
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appealed against was due to breach of duty on the part of the Electoral Registration
Officer.46

14. Notice of the decision on any appeal under this Schedule shall be sent by the
Chief Registrar to —
(a) the Clerk of the Rolls; and
(b) the clerk of every local authority to whose district the register of
electors the subject of the appeal relates;
and the Clerk of the Rolls and such clerk shall, on receipt of such notice, make and sign
such alterations to the registers of electors as may be required to give effect to such
decision.
15. The right to vote at an election shall not be affected by any pending appeal, and
the decision on an appeal shall not alter or affect any poll or return in relation to an
election the writ for which is issued while such appeal is pending.
SCHEDULE 2

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Section 17(1)
[Sch 2 amends the following Acts —
Douglas Municipal Corporation Act 1895 q.v.
Jury Act 1980 q.v.
Representation of the People Act 1995 q.v.
Education Act 2001 q.v.]
SCHEDULE 3

CONSEQUENTIAL REPEALS

Section 17(2)
[Sch 3 repeals the following Act wholly —
Registration of Electors Act 1984
and the following Acts in part —
Treasury Act 1985
Jury (Amendment) Act 1986
Statute Law Revision Act 1989
Civil Service Act 1990
Representation of the People Act 1995
Schedule 3
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Data Protection Act 2002
Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2006.]
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ENDNOTES

Table of Legislation History

Legislation Year and No Commencement






Table of Renumbered Provisions

Original Current






Table of Endnote References

1
Subs (2) not in operation. [Editorial note: Corresponding transitional provision for
existing registers under the Registration of Electors Act 1984 made by Art. 3 of
SD757/06.] 2
Subs (3) substituted by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 3
Subs (1) substituted by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 4
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 5
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 6
S 5 heading amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 7
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 8
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303).
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9
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 10
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 11
Subs (4) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 12
Para (a) amended by Administration of Justice Act 2008 s 31(3)(b). 13
Subs (5) amended by Administration of Justice Act 2008 s 31(3)(a) and by
Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37, applicable for the purposes
of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to the House of Keys (see
SD2015/0303). 14
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 15
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 16
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 17
Subs (4) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 18
Subs (8) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 19
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 20
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 21
Subs (4) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 22
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 23
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303).
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24
Subs (4) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 25
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 26
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 27
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 28
Subs (4) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 29
Subs (5) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 30
Para (a) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 31
Para (e) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 32
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 33
Subs (2) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 34
Subs (3) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 35
Para (a) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 36
Para (b) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 37
Subs (1) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303).
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38
Definition of “Electoral Registration Officer” inserted by Representation of the
People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37, applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General
Election and any subsequent election to the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 39
Definition of “national election” amended by Education (Miscellaneous Provisions)
Act 2009 Sch 1. 40
Definition of “registration officer” repealed by Representation of the People
(Amendment) Act 2015 s 37, applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election
and any subsequent election to the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 41
ADO (whole Act except s 2(2)) 27/9/2006 (SD757/06) with transitional provisions and
savings. By SD757/06 the definitive date for the registers is 13/10/2006. 42
Para 3 amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 43
Item (c) amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 44
Para 5 amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303). 45
Para 12 amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303).. 46
Para 13 amended by Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2015 s 37,
applicable for the purposes of the 2016 General Election and any subsequent election to
the House of Keys (see SD2015/0303).