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Northern Ireland Elections BIll

Key Benefits
Will amend current electoral registration system by abolishing the annual canvass in Northern Ireland. Will also give the Chief Electoral Officer increased powers to access data held by other public sector organisations. This will enable the Chief Electoral Officer to concentrate on making the electoral register both accurate and comprehensive.

Will introduce more transparent arrangements in relation to donation controls for Northern Ireland political parties.

Territorial Extent
Northern Ireland only

Comments

If you have any comments on the proposals you can email them to:

Peter.Hawthorne@nio.x.gsi.gov.uk