
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1991.
(2) These Regulations extend to Northern Ireland only.
2 
These Regulations, except paragraph (b) of the amendment made by regulation 4 and regulation 6, shall come into force when regulations 1 to 6 and 8 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Variation of Specified Documents and Amendment) Regulations 1991 come into force and paragraph (b) of the amendment made by regulation 4 and regulation 6 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 European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986.
4 
At the end of regulation 5(1) of the Regulations of 1986 (application with modifications of certain statutory provisions for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections) there shall be added the following:“
 The entry in that Schedule—
(a) in respect of rule 37(1E) of the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1983 is to that provision as amended by regulation 4 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Variation of Specified Documents and Amendment) Regulations 1991, and
(b) in respect of section 6 of the Act of 1985 is to that provision as amended by section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1990.”.
5 
At the end of regulation 5(2) of the Regulations of 1986 (application with modifications of certain subordinate legislation for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections) there shall be added the following:“
 The entries in that Schedule in respect of forms E (elector’s official poll card) and F (proxy’s official poll card) in Schedule 2 to the Regulations of 1986 are to those forms as amended by regulation 8 of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Variation of Specified Documents and Amendment) Regulations 1991.”.
6 
In the left-hand column of Schedule 2 to the Regulations of 1986 (application with modifications of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986 there shall be inserted, after the entry in respect of regulation 63, the following entry:“
 Regulation 63A (additional requirement for applicant no longer resident at qualifying address)”.
P. L. Brooke
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
23rd July 1991