Paragraph 7
Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below—
where a person applies under subsection (1) of section 7 of the 1985 Act to vote by post, or to vote by proxy, at the ordinary election he shall be treated as applying also to vote by post, or to vote by proxy, at the referendum under that subsection (as applied, with modifications, by article 12); and
where a person applies under that subsection (as so applied) to vote by post, or to vote by proxy, at the referendum he shall be treated as applying also to vote by post, or to vote by proxy, at the ordinary election under subsection (1) of section 7 of that Act.
Sub-paragraph (1) above shall not have effect where the person making such an application as is mentioned in that sub-paragraph states to the registration officer that he is applying to vote by post, or to vote by proxy, only at the ordinary election or, as the case may be, only at the referendum.