Regulation 2 Amendments to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

(1)

The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 1 (European Parliamentary elections rules)^f2, rule 53(3) (the count), for “them” substitute “the numbers or other unique identifying marks printed on the back of the papers”.

(3)

In Schedule 2 (absent voting)^f3—

(a)

in paragraph 36(7) (requiring personal identifiers from existing absent voters), for “an elections” substitute “an election”;

(b)

in paragraph 39(1)(a) (consequences of failure or refusal to provide personal identifiers), for “voting records” substitute “absent voting records”;

(c)

in paragraph 54(10) (lost postal ballot papers), for “regulation 52” substitute “paragraph 52”; and

(d)

in paragraph 70(1) (forwarding of documents), for “those rules” substitute “the European Parliamentary elections rules”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2004/293 as modified by S.I.2004/294 and amended by S.I 2004/1771, S.I.2005/2114 and S.I 2009/186.
f2: Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 39 and Schedule 2.
f3: Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 40 and Schedule 3.