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Part TABLE 3 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1985

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ProvisionModification
Sections 5 and 7 to 9A reference to prescribed requirements shall be construed as a reference to the requirements of the provisions of the Representation of the People Regulations 1986 as applied by Table 4.
A reference to the principal Act shall be construed as a reference to the 1983 Act and the rules under section 36 of that Act which are applied by Table 2.
A reference to a parliamentary or local government election, or a particular such election, shall be construed as a reference to the referendum.
Section 5 (manner of voting)

In subsection (7), for the definition of “appropriate rules” substitute–

  • ““appropriate rules” means the rules made under section 36 of the 1983 Act as they have effect for the purposes of the referendum.”.

Section 7 (absent vote at a particular election and absent voters list)In subsection (1)(b) omit “parliamentary or, as the case may be,”.
In subsections (2) and (4) for “elections of the kind in question”; in each place, substitute “local government elections”.
In subsection (4) for “each parliamentary or local government election” and “the election”, in each place, substitute “the referendum”.
Section 8 (proxies)In subsection (2) for “parliamentary elections (whether in the same constituency or elsewhere)” substitute “the referendum”.
Omit subsection (3).
In subsection (3A) for “a local government election” substitute “the referendum” and for “that election” substitute “a local government election”.
In subsection (5) for the words from “same parliamentary” to “electoral area” substitute “referendum in any voting area”.
Omit subsection (6).
In subsection (7)(a) omit “parliamentary or, as the case may be,”.

For subsections (9) and (10) substitute–

“(9)

The appointment of a proxy shall remain in force for the referendum, unless cancelled by notice from the elector to the registration officer.”.

Section 9 (voting as proxy)Omit subsections (4) to (6) and (11).

In subsection (8), for the words from “kept” to “question” substitute “of those whose applications to vote by post as proxy at local government elections for an indefinite period have been granted (“the relevant record”)”.

In subsection (9)—

  1. (a)

    for “each parliamentary or local government election” substitute “the referendum”; and

  2. (b)

    in paragraph (a) for the words from “the record” to “question” substitute “the relevant record”.

In subsection (10)—

  1. (a)

    in paragraph (a) omit “parliamentary or, as the case may be,” and

  2. (b)

    in paragraph (b) for “elections of the kind in question” substitute “local government elections” and for “the election concerned” substitute “the referendum”.

Section 12(3) and (4) (offences)

Annotations

Footnotes

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1985 c. 50; in section 8 subsection (11) was repealed by Part IX of Schedule 27 to the Finance Act 1985 (c. 54) and subsections (3) and (3A) were substituted by Schedule 2 to S.I. 1995/1948.