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  Electoral Registration and Administration Bill - Schedule 4 - Duties of Electoral Registration Officers
  
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  @ MP voted aye to place a duty on electoral registration officers to secure that persons who are entitled to be registered in a register (and no others) are registered in it and not to limit that duty by including "so far as is reasonably practicable". 
  @ MP voted no to place a duty on electoral registration officers to secure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, persons who are entitled to be registered in a register (and no others) are registered in it. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to place a duty on electoral registration officers to secure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, persons who are entitled to be registered in a register (and no others) are registered in it. 
  
  This vote was on if the "so far as is reasonably practicable" element ought be removed.
  
  MPs were considering the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 35, page 21, line 23, leave out â, so far as is reasonably practicable,
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have affected Schedule 4 of the Bill[2], the specific subsection affected related to a provision to amend [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/9A Section 9A of the Representation of the People Act 1983] titled ''Registration officers: duty to take necessary steps'', and which set out some of the included steps. 
  
  :At the end of subsection (1) insert âand for the purpose of securing that, so far as is reasonably practicable, persons who are entitled to be registered in a register (and no others) are registered in itâ.
  
  Subsection (1) stated:
  
  :Each registration officer must take all steps that are necessary for the purpose of complying with his duty to maintain the registers under [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/9 section 9] above.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/electoralregistrationandadministration.html Parliament's webpage on the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0006/cbill_2012-20130006_en_4.htm#sch4 Schedule 4 of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill]
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