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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Variation of Specified Documents and Amendment) Regulations 1991.
(2) These Regulations extend to Northern Ireland only.
2 
These Regulations, except regulation 7, shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which they are made and regulation 7 shall come into force when the Representation of the People Act 1990 comes into force in Northern Ireland.
3 
In these Regulations “the Regulations of 1986” means the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986.
4 
After sub-paragraph (f) of rule 37(1E) (list of specified documents) of the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:“
(g) a card made of plastic on which the name and national insurance number of the person to whom it is issued have been embossed and which has been issued by the Department of Health and Social Security or the Department of Social Security”.
5 
In regulation 55(6) (supply of data) of the Regulations of 1986, for the words from “of the register” to “to that register:” there shall be substituted the words “of the whole or part of the register under regulation 53 above, so much of the data to which this regulation applies as relates to the part or parts of the register to which such a person is so entitled:”.
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(1) Regulation 56 (supply of labels) of the Regulations of 1986 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
(2) In paragraph (3) for the word “constituency” there shall be substituted the words “area for which the registration officer is authorised by this regulation to supply such labels”.
(3) In paragraph (4) before the words “the register” there shall be inserted the words “the whole or part of” and for the words “that register” there shall be substituted the words “the part or parts of the register to which such person is so entitled”.
7 
After regulation 63 of the Regulations of 1986, there shall be inserted the following regulation:“
63A 
An application under paragraph (aa) of section 6(2) of the Act of 1985 shall specify the address, if any, at which the applicant is resident at the date of the application.”.
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(1) Forms E (elector’s official poll card) and F (proxy’s official poll card) in Schedule 2 to the Regulations of 1986 shall be amended as follows.
(2) After paragraph (e) on the back of the card of each form there shall be inserted the following paragraph:“
(f) a card made of plastic issued by the Department of Health and Social Security or the Department of Social Security with a name and national insurance number embossed on it;”.
(3) The existing paragraph (f) on the back of the card of each form shall be renumbered “(g)”.
P. L. Brooke
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
23rd July 1991