Paragraph 93 Tendered postal ballot papers

(1)

Regulation 81A of the 2008 Regulations (tendered 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 for “rule 40ZA of the elections rules” there were substituted “regulation 39 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

(3)

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

(a)

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

(b)

for “section 15 of the 1985 Act” there were substituted “regulations under section 4(2) of the European Union Referendum Act 2015”.

(4)

Paragraph (4) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a), for “section 7(4A) of the 1985 Act” there were substituted “regulation 74(4) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (b), for the words from “section 9(9)” to the end there were substituted “regulation 77(8) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 but for regulations 74(4) or 77(9) of those Regulations.”

(5)

Paragraphs (5) to (11) have effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for “Chief Electoral Officer” (in each place) there were substituted “counting officer”.

(6)

Paragraph (9) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a)

for “rule 40ZA(9) of the elections rules” there were substituted “regulation 39(9) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and

(b)

for “rule 40ZA(7) of the elections rules” there were substituted “regulation 39(7) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Regulation 81A was inserted by regulation 27 of S.I. 2014/1808.