Paragraph 1

Article 6 of the 1985 Order^f1 is amended as follows.

After paragraph (7) (manner of voting) insert—

“(7A)

Nothing in the preceding provisions of this Article applies to—

(a)

a person (“P”) to whom section 7 of the Representation of the People Act 1983^f2 (patients in mental hospitals who are not detained offenders or on remand) applies and who is liable, by virtue of any enactment, to be detained in the mental hospital in question, or

(b)

a person (“P”) to whom section 7A of that Act (persons remanded in custody) applies,

whether P is registered by virtue of that provision or not; and P may only vote by post or by proxy (where P is entitled as an elector to vote by post or, as the case may be, by proxy at the election).

(7B)

Paragraph (1) does not prevent a person (“P”), at the polling station allotted to P, marking a tendered ballot paper in pursuance of rule 37 of the Local Elections Rules.”.