Commentary on Sections Part 1: Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors Section 5 CORE schemes: supplemental
55.This section makes supplemental provisions in relation to CORE schemes.
56.Subsections (1) and (3) authorise a CORE scheme to specify circumstances in which payments may be required between a CORE keeper and an ERO for an area covered by a CORE scheme, and the circumstances in which a CORE keeper may charge any person for his services and the level of any such charges.
57.Subsection (2) authorises a CORE scheme to make provision enabling a CORE keeper and an ERO to perform some of the other’s functions. Subsection (10) allows a CORE scheme to specify functions that must be carried out personally by a CORE keeper. A CORE keeper may make arrangements with third parties, if he thought it appropriate, with respect to the carrying out of any other functions.
58.A CORE scheme could make special provision for how that scheme and keeper are to operate in respect of a parliamentary constituency that falls partly within, and partly outside, the area covered by that CORE scheme. Paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1983 Act provides for regulations to be made dealing with such a situation and a scheme may apply, with modifications, any regulations made under that provision (subsections (4) and (5)).
59.As information kept and used in a CORE scheme will mainly be held electronically, a power is taken (subsection (6))  to modify any obligation to provide a person’s signature, where that is a requirement for the purposes of an ERO’s responsibilities, in relation to electoral registration or absent voting.