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10.  Section 4 of the 1983 Act provides that a person is entitled to be registered in the register of parliamentary electors for any constituency or part of it if, on the relevant date, he/she is:
 
            (a) resident in that constituency or part of it;
            (b) not subject to a legal incapacity to vote (age apart);
            (c) either a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland;
(d) of voting age.