Clause 8

by deleting the words “within the electoral division in which those claimants reside” in the penultimate and last lines of subsection (2A) and substituting the words “in or near the electoral division in which those claimants reside and at the overseas registration centres”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2A), the following subsection:“(2B) A claim under subsection (1) may be made at an overseas registration centre and be accompanied by the claimant’s application to be registered as an overseas elector made in accordance with section 13A.”; and

by inserting, immediately after the words “in the register” in subsections (9B), (11)(b) and (12)(b)(ii), the words “and, where applicable, register the person as an overseas elector”.