Regulation 3 Amendments to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004
In regulation 17 (effect of registers)—
in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)that he does not or did not at any particular time satisfy any requirement for voting which relates to citizenship;”;
in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—
“(c)that he is or was at any particular time otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.”;
for paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3)In the case of the persons referred to in paragraph (4), for “at any particular time” in each of paragraph (2)(b) and (c), substitute “on the relevant date or the date of his appointment (as the case may be).”
for paragraph (4) substitute—
“(4)“The relevant date” in paragraph (3)—
(a)in the case of a Gibraltar elector, is the date on which an application for registration is made or treated as having been made by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 4;
(b)in the case of a person registered as an elector by virtue of being a relevant citizen of the Union, is the date which is the relevant date for the purposes of regulation 4 of the 2001 Franchise Regulations;
(c)in the case of a peer entitled to vote by virtue of section 3 of the 1985 Actf1, is the date which is the relevant date for the purposes of that section.”
Annotations
Footnotes
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The 1985 Act is the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) (see regulation 2 of the 2004 Regulations); section 3 was substituted by paragraphs 1 and 8 of Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2) and amended by section 141 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41) and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22).