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Electoral Administration Bill

I thank the Minister for that reply. I suspect that one of the differences between electoral registration officers and CORE keepers is that an electoral registration officer has individual responsibility, aside from authority, for any information that he gains. It is important that that individual responsibility for assembling information is not dispersed too greatly because it is at a central point. I understand that the electoral registration officer will still be responsible for the collection of the information and that the CORE keepers will be responsible for its maintenance, but that is still a big responsibility and must not be misused. Before next time, we need to look at where those duties should be hardened to make them as near as possible to the strength of duties that are given to electoral registration officers. In the mean time, I thank the Minister for her reply and beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 not moved.]