Electoral Administration Bill

moved Amendment No. 5:"Page 37, line 22, leave out ““(da) (inserted by section 14(3)(b))”” and insert ““(d)””" The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments Nos. 6, 65, 66 and 67. This group of amendments picks up missed consequential changes and small drafting errors created when the postal vote identifier provisions were added to the Bill on Report. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are missed consequential amendments. They remove a reference to the old Clause 14(3)(b) and, in the light of the deletion of that clause on Report, alter the numbering of the amendment to rule 43 of the parliamentary elections rules, inserted by Clause 30. Amendments Nos. 65, 66 and 67 also relate to the removal of the Bill’s old personal identifier provisions. As noble Lords will recall, part of the old provisions allowed for the question ““What is your date of birth?”” to be asked in a polling station. This question was being extended from Northern Ireland, where it is already asked. When the old provisions were removed on Report, we inadvertently also removed the ability for presiding officers in Northern Ireland to ask this question and for voters to receive a tendered ballot. These amendments undo that error, for which I apologise, and ensure that the existing Northern Ireland system remains unaltered. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.