Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee

18 March 2026

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Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee Wed, 18 Mar 2026 House of Lords

00:02 - 00:08

Speaker 1

Good afternoon. Miss Selena, I think it's for you to continue now with your unopposed clauses.

00:08 - 02:43

Speaker 2

Thank you, my lord. We've got up to clause, 22, I think, which brought us towards the end of the who can be a trustee part, if I can put it in those very broad terms. The next one on our list as unopposed, which hasn't which hasn't already been touched on, is clause 25, the returning officer. I hope this call is relatively self explanatory. It's about the trust trustees appointing an individual to be a returning officer for an elections, providing for payment of charges and expenses which were incurred in that regard, and for taking such steps as the returning officer may may think appropriate to remedy any act or omission on their part or of a relevant person.

Clause 26 is about legal proceedings relating to elections of trustees, and I mentioned that briefly yesterday in response to mister Myatt that it brings in the challenge by petition process for challenging local government elections in the representation part three of the representation of the people at 1983. Clause 27, registered electors. This is a requirement for the relevant electoral registration officers officer to supply to the returning officer free of charge and on publication a copy of the relevant register, which will be needed to run elections. The in broad terms, the trust is not, I think, one of the bodies that's currently including general legislation as somebody who's automatically got access to it. So this is provision has gone in to make sure that it could get the get access to the information it needs for the elections to be run.

Clause 28 which is about benefits to trustees. So this will capture the expenses but also the general provisions that you tend to find with things like charities around contracts that might be entered into with somebody who's a trustee or a connected person of the trustee. So essentially making clear that no part of the income or property of the trust can be transferred, paid or applied by way of benefit except in accordance with rules that have been made under section seven, and I touched on that in schedule one. Yes. Can I just ask under clause 27, the register of electors, would that include email addresses for the electronic purposes?

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