Representation of the People
Act, 1918. |
AN ACT |
TO |
| Amend the Law with respect to Parliamentary and Local
Government Franchises, and the Registration of Parliamentary and Local
Government Electors, and the conduct of elections, and to provide
for the Redistribution of Seats at Parliamentary Elections, and for
other purposes connected therewith. |
Chapter 64. |
6th February 1918. |
[8 GEO. 5.]
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Representation of the People Act, 1918.
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[CH. 64.]
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4. (1) |
A woman shall be entitled to be registered as a parliamentary elector
for a constituency (other than a university constituency) if she -
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Franchises
(women).
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(a) |
has attained the age of thirty years; and |
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(b) |
is not subject to any legal incapacity; and |
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| (c) |
is entitled to be registered as a local government elector
in respect of the occupation in that constituency of land or premises
(not being a dwelling-house) of a yearly value of not less than five
pounds or of a dwelling-house, or is the wife of a husband entitled
to be so registered. |
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| (2) |
A woman shall be entitled to be registered as a parliamentary elector
for a university constituency if she has attained the age of thirty
years and either would be entitled to be so registered if she were
a man, or has been admitted to and passed the final examination, and
kept under the conditions required of women by the university the
period of residence, necessary for a man to obtain a degree at any
university forming, or forming part of, a university constituency
which did not at the time the examination was passed admit women to
degrees. |
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| (3) |
A woman shall be entitled to be registered as a local government
elector for any local government electoral area - |
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| (a) |
where she would be entitled to be so registered if she were a man;
and |
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| (b) |
where she is the wife of a man who is entitled to be so registered
in respect of premises in which they both reside, and she has attained
the age of thirty years and is not subject to any legal incapacity. |
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For the purpose of this provision, a naval or military voter who
is registered in respect of a residence qualification which he would
have had but for his service, shall be deemed to be resident in accordance
with the qualification. |
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