The Act of 1992 is hereby amended by -

(a) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1) of section 15:

"(1A)

(a) Notwithstanding subsection (1), sections 7(1)(b), 8(1)(b), 9 and 10, and Rule 1(3) of the Second Schedule and subject to section 11(1)(a) and paragraph (c), a person who:

(i) was not ordinarily resident in a constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, on the qualifying date for a register of electors and takes up ordinary residence in such constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, after such qualifying date and is otherwise entitled to be registered as an elector under section 7, 8, 9 or 10, or

(ii) reaches the age of eighteen years after the date of the coming into force of a register of electors,

may apply to the registration authority to have his name entered in the supplement to the register.

(b) An applicant for entry in the supplement referred to in paragraph (a)(i) shall satisfy the registration authority that he has taken up ordinary residence in the constituency or local electoral area, as the case may be, in respect of which the application applies and, in considering an application from such person, the registration authority may require the applicant to furnish a statutory declaration that he has taken up ordinary residence in the constituency or local electoral area concerned.