Paragraph 83 Persons entitled to be present at proceedings on issue and receipt of postal ballot papers

(1)

Regulation 72 of the 2008 Regulations (persons entitled to be present at proceedings on issue of postal ballot papers)^f1 applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.

(2)

Paragraph (1) has effect for those purposes as if—

(a)

For “a parliamentary election” there were substituted “the referendum”, and

(b)

for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) there were substituted—

“(a)
the counting officer and his clerks;

(b)
a referendum agent;”.

(3)

Paragraph (2) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a)

for “sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d)” there were substituted “sub-paragraphs (b) and (d)”, and

(b)

for “rule 40ZA of the elections rules” there were substituted “regulation 39 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Regulation 72 was amended by regulation 8 of S.I. 2010/278 and regulation 22 of S.I. 2014/1808.