European Parliament Elections Act

L.N. 61 of 2019

EUROPEAN UNION ACT

(CAP. 460)

European Parliament Elections Act

(Amendment No. 3) Order, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4(2) of the

European Union Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

Order:-

(1) The title of this Order is the European Parliament Title and scope.

Elections Act (Amendment No. 3) Order, 2019, and this Order shall be Cap. 467.

read and construed as one with the European Parliament Elections Act,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

(2) The scope of this Order is to permit the Electoral

Commission to proceed to delete from the European Union Electoral

Register the registration of voters who are citizens of a State that has

ceased to be a Member of the European Union, even if such exit of the

Member State from the European Union takes place on a date which

falls after the issuance of the European Parliament Electoral Register

and before polling day or the start of the election period.

Article 16 of the principal Act shall be substituted by the Amends article

16 of the

following

principal Act.

''16. (1) A person whose name appears on the Electoral

Roll may at any time, in writing, request the Electoral

Commission to remove his name from such Electoral Roll and

thereupon his name shall be struck off the Electoral Roll.

(2) In the event that a State ceases to be a Member State

of the European Union, the Electoral Commission shall proceed

to cancel from the European Union Electoral Register any such

persons who are solely so registered on that register by virtue of

their being citizens of that State which has ceased to be a

member of the European Union, and this without any further

notice or proceedings

Provided that if, following the publication of the notice

provided in article 9 and prior to polling day, a State ceases to be a

Member State of the European Union, the Electoral Commission

shall ensure that all names of citizens of that State shall be struck

off the list of voters referred to in article 64(1) of the General

Elections Act, and such citizens will no longer be entitled to cast

their vote

Provided further that any voter who shall not be

eligible to vote on polling day shall not be considered eligible to

vote on the first, second and third voting days.

(3) In the circumstances referred to in the preceding sub-

article, the Electoral Commission shall issue an official notice in

the Government Gazette with a list of names of those citizens

whose name is to be struck off the list of voters.''.

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