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(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1991.
(2) This Order extends to Northern Ireland only.
(3) This Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
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The Local Elections (Variation of Limits of Candidates' Election Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 is hereby revoked.
3 
In section 42(1) of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (limit on candidates' election expenses), for the words “£162” and “3.2p” there shall be substituted the words “£184” and “3.6p”, respectively.
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(1) Schedule 5 (local elections rules) to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
(2) After sub-paragraph (f ) of rule 34(6) of the rules in that Schedule there shall be added:“
(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”.
(3) Form 6 (elector’s official poll card) in the Appendix of forms in that Schedule shall be amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph (a) of the back of the card, for the words “(but NOT a provisional licence)” there shall be substituted the words “or a Northern Ireland provisional licence”;
(b) after paragraph (d) of the back of the card there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:“
(e) a current British seaman’s card;
(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;”; and
(c) the existing paragraph (e) of the back of the card shall be renumbered “(g)”.
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Paragraph 1 (absent vote at local elections for indefinite period) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 shall be amended by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (2):“
(aa) if he is no longer resident at his qualifying address or at any other address in the same ward as his qualifying address;”.
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After paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, there shall be inserted the following paragraph:“
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An application under paragraph (aa) of paragraph 1(2) shall specify the address, if any, at which the applicant is resident at the date of the application.”.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
