(1918) Amendment Bill. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Assimilation of male and female and parliamentary and local government franchises. 2. University franchise (women). 3. Right of person registered to vote. 4. University fees for registration. 5. Saving for validity and sufficiency of existing 7. Removal of disqualification imposed by 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73. s. 46 (1) (b). (1918) Amendment. A BILL ΤΟ BE Amend the Representation of the People Act, 1918. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: 10 15 20 25 A.D. 1924. male and female 1. For section one of the Representation of the Assimilation of People Act, 1918, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) there shall be substituted the following section, namely: 66 and parlia mentary and "1.-(1) Every man and woman shall be entitled "Parliato be registered as a parliamentary and local mentary government elector for a constituency (other than and local a university constituency) and a local government ment electoral area, respectively, if he or she (a) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and and (b) has the requisite residence qualification; (c) is not subject to any legal incapacity. "(2) A person, in order to have the requisite residence qualification for a constituency or a local government electoral area (a) must, on the last day of the qualifying period, be residing in premises in the constituency or the local government electoral area, as the case may be; and govern franchises." A D. 1924. University franchise (women). Right of person registered to vote. (1918) Amendment. (b) must, during the whole of the qualifying period, have resided in the constituency or the local government electoral area, as the case may be, or in another constituency or another local government electoral area, as the case 5 may be, within the same parliamentary county or within a parliamentary county or parliamentary county contiguous to that borough or county, or separated from that borough or county by water not exceeding at the nearest 10 point six miles in breadth, measured in the case of tidal water from low-water mark. For the purposes of this subsection the administrative county of London shall be treated as a parliamentary borough." 2. Subsection (2) of section four of the principal Act shall have effect as though for the words "thirty "there were substituted the words "twenty-one years years." 15 3. For subsection (1) of section eight of the prin- 20 cipal Act the following subsection shall be substituted, namely: : "(1) Every person registered as a parliamentary elector for any constituency shall, while so registered (and, in the case of a woman, not- 25 withstanding sex or marriage), be entitled to vote at an election of a member to serve in Parliament for that constituency; but a person shall not vote at a general election for more than one constituency for which he is registered by virtue 30 of a residence qualification, or for more than one constituency for which he is registered by virtue of other qualifications of whatever kind.' University 4. So much of section nineteen of the principal Act fees for as authorises an university to charge a fee for registration 35 registration. shall cease to have effect. Saving for 5. Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity and validity and sufficiency for all purposes of all parliamentary and sufficiency local government registers in force at the passing of this Act until the next registers to be prepared come 40 into force. of existing registers. (1918) Amendment. 6. The provisions of the principal Act specified in A.D. 1924. the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed. Repeals. 7. Section ten of the principal Act shall be read as Removal of though the following subsections were added at the end disqualifi 5 thereof: 10 15 20 cation imposed by "(2) The disqualification in respect of election, 56 & 57 membership or chairmanship imposed by para- Vict. c. 73, graph (b) of subsection (1) of section forty-six of s. 46 (1) (b). the Local Government Act, 1894, is hereby removed, both as regards the local authorities mentioned in that section, including boards of guardians, and as regards metropolitan borough councils, and accordingly the cited paragraph is hereby repealed. "(3) This section shall apply to any elections or appointments pending at the date of the passing of this Act, and to any membership consequent upon any such election or appointment, as well as to future elections, appointments and membership." 8. This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland. 9. (1) This Act shall be read as one with the principal Act, and may be jointly cited therewith as the Representation of the People Acts, 1918 and 1924. 25 (2) This Act may be separately cited as the Representation of the People Act (1918) Amendment Act, 1924. Restriction on extent. Short title and con struction. |