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The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

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Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 105(2A) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

National Health Service

Representation Of The People

Made 2010

Coming into force 15th February 2010

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(10A) and 105(7) of, and by paragraph 12(1), (2) and (3) of Schedule 1A to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 105(2A) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1978 c.29. Section 2(10A) was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) Scotland Act 2009 (asp 5) (“the 2009 Act”). Section 105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5(1) and Schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule 9, Part I, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60. Schedule 1A was inserted by section 2(3) of the 2009 Act. Section 108(1) contains the relevant definition of “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010 and come into force on 15th February 2010.

2Amendment of the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009

(1)

The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

After regulation 5 insert—

“Application of the 1983 Act

5A.
(1)

Without prejudice to regulation 6, the following provisions of the 1983 Actf2 apply, with modifications, to a Health Board election.

(2)

Section 60 (personation) of the 1983 Actf3 applies to a Health Board election with the following modifications—

(a)

for subsection (2) substitute—

“(2)

A person shall be deemed to be guilty of personation at a Health Board election if that person votes by post as some other person whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person.”; and

(b)

in subsection (3) omit “who has applied for a ballot paper for the purpose of voting in person or”.

(3)

Section 61 (other voting offences) of the 1983 Actf4 applies to a Health Board election with the following modifications—

(a)

omit subsections (1), (2A), (3), (3A), (4), (6A) and (6B);

(b)

for subsection (2) substitute—

“(2)

A person shall be guilty of an offence if that person votes either—

(a)

more than once in the same Health Board area; or

(b)

in more than one Health Board area.”;

(c)

for subsection (6) substitute—

“(6)

For the purposes of this section a person who has marked, whether validly or not, and returned a ballot paper issued for the purpose of voting by post, shall be deemed to have voted.”; and

(d)

in subsection (7)(a) for “below” substitute “as applied to a Health Board election by the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009”.

(4)

Section 65 (tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc.) of the 1983 Actf5 applies to a Health Board election with the following modifications—

(a)

any reference to—

(i)

a local government election; or

(ii)

a parliamentary or local government election,

is to be read as a reference to a Health Board election.

(b)

in subsection (1)(b)—

(i)

omit “postal voting statement or”; and

(ii)

for “declaration of identity or official” substitute “covering”;

(c)

omit subsection (1)(e); and

(d)

in subsection (3) omit “, a presiding officer”.”.

(3)

Omit the cross heading to regulation 6 (application of Part 3 of the 1983 Act).

(4)

In rule 5 of the Schedule (voters - eligibility)—

(a)

before “An individual” insert “(1)”;

(b)

at the end insert—

“(2)

A voter may not vote in more than one Health Board area.

(3)

A voter may not vote more than once in the same Health Board area.”.

Signature

   

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (“the principal Regulations”) which set out the arrangements for pilot Health Board elections.

Regulation 2(2) inserts regulation 5A into the principal Regulations, which applies modified provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to Health Board elections. These are section 60 (presentation), section 61 (voting more than once) and section 65 (offences relating to nomination and ballot papers).

Regulation 2(4) amends rule 5 of the Schedule to the principal Regulations to provide that an individual may not vote in more than one Health Board area and may not vote more than once in the same Health Board area.