Part 2: Overseas Electors and EU Citizens Overseas Electors Schedule 7: Overseas electors Part 1 - Minor and Consequential Amendments
Schedule 7 Part 1 contains minor and consequential amendments and Part 2 contains transitional provision relating to section 14.
	Paragraphs 1 to 4 make amendments to the RPA 1983. Paragraphs 1 to 3 make consequential amendments as a result of the replacement of sections 1 and 2 RPA 1985 with new sections 1 to 1E by section 14.
	Paragraph 4 makes amendments to Schedule 2 to the RPA 1983 (provisions which may be contained in regulations as to registration etc).
	Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of paragraph 4 enable provision to be made in secondary legislation relating to renewal declarations and how these are to be transmitted to the registration officer. These replicate existing powers relating to overseas elector’s declarations contained in paragraph 3ZA of Schedule 2 to the RPA 1983.
	Sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 4 inserts sub-paragraph (1AA) into paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the RPA 1983. This enables provisions to be prescribed in regulations which authorise a registration officer to require other kinds of evidence that such an officer considers appropriate in support of an application for registration in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration. It also enables provisions to be prescribed in regulations authorising a registration officer to deem such other kinds of evidence as the officer considers appropriate to be sufficient or conclusive evidence for the purposes of determining whether a person satisfies the conditions to be an overseas elector.
	Paragraph 5 amends section 12 of the RPA 1985 (offences as to declarations) so as to extend the offence in section 12(1) to include renewal declarations as well as overseas elector’s declarations.
	Paragraphs 6, 7 and 9 make consequential amendments as a result of the replacement of sections 1 and 2 RPA 1985 with new sections 1 to 1E by section 14.
	Paragraphs 8 and 10 omit section 42(7) of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 and section 4(6) of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 respectively. These provisions are no longer required as the new section 1 of the RPA 1985 extends the franchise to a person who has been entered on a register of local government electors.
	Paragraph 11 repeals a number of provisions which are redundant as a result of the replacement of sections 1 and 2 RPA 1985 with new sections 1 to 1E by section 14.