Regulation 21 Notification that certain electors entitled to absent vote

(1)

As soon as practicable after the publication of notice of the referendum, a registration officer must—

(a)

notify those peers who are within entry 2, 4 or 5 of the table in regulation 63(2) or 74(2) that they are entitled to vote by post in the referendum;

(b)

notify those electors who are within entry 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the table in regulation 63(3) or 74(3) that they are entitled to vote by proxy in the referendum.

(2)

A notice given to a person under paragraph (1)(b) must—

(a)

in the case of a person within entry 2 of the table, state that the person’s entitlement to vote by proxy in the referendum arises by virtue of the person’s inclusion in the list of proxies for a specified poll mentioned in that entry;

(b)

in the case of a person within entry 3 of the table, state that the person’s entitlement to vote by proxy in the referendum arises by virtue of the person’s inclusion in the record kept under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000^f1 or (as the case may be) section 6 of the Representation of the People Act 1985^f2 as voting by proxy at parliamentary elections;

(c)

in the case of a peer within entry 4 of the table, state that the peer’s entitlement to vote by proxy in the referendum arises by virtue of the peer’s inclusion in the record kept under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 or (as the case may be) paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985^f3 as voting by proxy;

(d)

in the case of a peer within entry 5 of the table, state that the peer’s entitlement to vote by proxy in the referendum arises by virtue of the peer’s inclusion in the record kept under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004^f4 or (as the case may be) regulation 8 of the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004^f5 as voting by proxy.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2000 c.2. Paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 was amended by paragraph 164(1) and (2) of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33); section 14 of, and paragraphs 19, 20 137(1) and (4) of Schedule 1 to, the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22); and sections 20(c)(i) and 34(5) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14).
f2: Section 6 was amended by section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1990 (c.32); paragraph 134 of Schedule 1, and paragraphs 12 and 14 of Schedule 6, to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2); section 3(1) and (2) of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c.13); paragraphs 7(1) and (2) of Schedule 4 to S.I. 2005/3129; and article 5(1) and (3) of S.I. 2014/1116.
f3: S.I. 1985/454. Paragraph 1, together with the rest of Part 1 of Schedule 2, was substituted by article 5(5) of, and Schedule 2 to, S.I. 1987/168.
f4: S.I. 2004/293. Schedule 2 was substituted by regulation 40 of, and Schedule 3 to, S.I. 2009/186.
f5: S.I. 2004/1267. Regulation 8 was amended by paragraph 2(1) and (2) of Schedule 9 to 2005/2114; regulation 7 of S.I. 2009/813; and regulations 9 and 12 of S.I. 2014/1803.