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Section 5 defines the duties of Superintendent
Registrars as to the correction of lists.
Section 6 as to Revising Barristers and final lists.
Section 7 alters dates at present in existence for
registration purposes.
Section 8 provides that where a Parliamentary elector,
registered in one Parliamentary electoral area, moves to
another, and has been there for not less than 3 months,
ending December 25th, that he shall be transferred to the
Parliamentary Register.
Section 11 provides that the Council shall pay out of
the County fund all the expenses of the registration of
electors.
Section 13 imposes penalties on the Registrar if the
electors are omitted from the lists.
Section 19 provides as to the commencement of the Act,
the new register of which is to come into force upon the 11th
December of this year.
Your Committee resolved:—That the President of the
Local Government Board be asked to amend this Bill by
inserting the word" shall for the word "may" on line 2
page 3 of such Bill, and insert, "that the Clerk to the
Municipal Authority, and in London, Clerks to the Vestries
under Schedule A, and Clerks to the District Boards,
Schedule B, of the Metropolis Local Management Act,
1855, should be the Superintendent Registrars," and that
Sub-section d, Section 19, be struck out.