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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

Yes, that is correct. I referred to that point in response to the right hon. Member for Belfast North, when I spoke about the carry-forward. There is the important safeguard that if people fail to register to vote individually and there is no reason to think that they are not eligible to vote, there is a carry-forward process to stop the drop-off that we saw in Northern Ireland when it moved to a new system.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
545 c1178 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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