Running electoral registration - Scotland

When you process an application, you must make a decision as to whether the applicant is entitled to a Voter Authority Certificate or Anonymous Elector’s Document. This is called determining an application.

You should determine an application as soon as you can after it is received.

You must determine an application for a Voter Authority Certificate or Anonymous Elector’s Document as approved if you are satisfied that the applicant:1

• is the person named in the application
• has provided all the required information – including a photograph that meets the requirements
• is a registered elector in the parliamentary register of electors, or you have determined their registration application and the five day objection period has passed

If after following the steps set out in the Verification of an applicant’s identity for a Voter Authority Certificate or an Anonymous Elector’s Document you are not satisfied with the information provided on an application, you should determine it as refused.

Whatever determination decision you make, you must write to the elector to notify them.2