Paragraph 28 Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985I1

In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454), paragraph 3 (proxies at local elections) is amended as follows.

After sub-paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A)

A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a local election unless the person is or will be registered in—

(a)

a register of local electors in Northern Ireland, or

(b)

a register of local government electors in Great Britain maintained under section 9 of the 1983 Act.”

In sub-paragraph (2)—

For sub-paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4)

A person—

(a)

is not entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of more than two electors who do not fall within sub-paragraph (4A), but

(b)

subject to paragraph (a), is entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of up to four electors.

(4A)

An elector falls within this sub-paragraph if the elector is registered in a register of local electors in pursuance of a service declaration.

(4B)

Where the polls for two or more local elections are held on the same day, references in sub-paragraph (4) to a local election are to all of those elections taken together.”