Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013
The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended electoral law in the United Kingdom. It introduced Individual Electoral Registration (IER).
| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Act to make provision about the registration of electors and the administration and conduct of elections; and to amend section 3(2)(a) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986. |
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| Citation | c.6 |
| Introduced by | Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister (Commons) Lord Wallace of Saltarie, Lord-in-waiting (Lords) |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 31 January 2013 |
Status: Amended | |
| History of passage through Parliament | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Westminster government had introduced IER to Northern Ireland in 2002 in the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, but England, Wales and Scotland continued to use a system of householder registration.
With the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies in some doubt following the collapse of the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012, there had been some criticism of the money spent on boundary reviews whilst also favouring introducing IER. The Electoral Commission suggested that there could be a severe drop in turnout as a result. Section 6 of the Act effectively postponed the Sixth Periodic Review until "not before 1 October 2018".
There are three parts to the Act.