Part TABLE 2 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983

After “election”, in each place, insert “or referendum”.

In subsection (1), for “the final nomination day”, substitute “the nineteenth day before the date of the poll at the referendum”.

After subsection (4), insert

“(4A)

This section also applies to referendums.”.

In subsection (1) —

1. (a)

   for “elections of county councillors” substitute “referendums by or in respect of a county or county borough”.

In subsection (3), for “local government elections” substitute “referendums”.

Omit “mentioned in subsections (1) to (3) above”.

In subsection (6), for the words from the beginning to “councillor, the council”, substitute “Before a poll is taken at such a referendum as is referred to in subsection (4), the local authority”.

Regulation 8(1)(b) shall not apply in relation to the first reference in subsection (6) to the returning officer.

In subsection (1), for “the returning officer at a local government election”, substitute “the counting officer at a referendum”.

In subsection (2) —

1. (a)

   omit the words from “, or”, at the end of paragraph (a), to “as the case may be,”;

2. (b)

   for “an election held under those Acts” substitute “a referendum held under the Referendums Regulations”.

In subsection (4), omit “parliamentary or”.

In subsection (5), omit “parliamentary or” and “prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny or”.

In subsection (1), after “local government election” and “local government elections”, in each place, insert “or referendum” and “or referendums”, respectively. voting area, or for them without applying for the cancellation of a previous pending application for such an appointment. to vote by post as proxy for that other person, or

For subsections (2) to (4) substitute —

“(2)

A person shall be guilty of an offence if —

(a)

that person votes on their own behalf otherwise than by proxy —

(i)

more than once in the same voting area;

(ii)

in more than one voting area; or

(iii)

in any voting area where there is in force an appointment of a person to vote as that person’s proxy in the referendum in another

(b)

that person votes on their own behalf in person and is entitled to vote by post, or

(c)

that person votes on their behalf in person knowing that a person appointed to vote as their proxy has already voted in person or is entitled to vote by post, or

(d)

that person applies for a person to be appointed as their proxy to vote appointment of a third person then in force or without withdrawing a

(3)

A person shall be guilty of an offence if —

(a)

that person votes as proxy for the same person either —

(i)

more than once in the same voting area, or

(ii)

in more than one voting area, or

(b)

that person votes in person as proxy for another person and is entitled

(c)

that person votes in person as proxy for someone whom that person knows already to have voted in person.

(4)

A person shall also be guilty of an offence if that person votes as proxy in any voting area for more than two persons of whom that person is not the husband, wife, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild.”.

In subsection (7), omit paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it.

In subsection (1) —

1. (a)

   after “election”, in the first place where it appears, insert “or referendum”; and

2. (b)

   omit paragraph (a).

In subsection (3), for “clerk”, substitute “person”.

For subsection (1)(b) substitute —

“(b)

every polling observer, so attending,”.

In subsection (2) —

1. (a)

   in paragraph (b), after “Wales” insert “; and”; and

2. (b)

   after paragraph (b) insert “(c) any referendum.”.

In subsection (4), omit the words after the definition of “publish”.

For subsection (1) substitute —

“(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section, any person is entitled, for the purpose of holding a public meeting to promote a particular result in the referendum, to use free of charge at reasonable times during the campaign period any meeting room to which this section applies.

(1A)

In subsection (1), “the campaign period” means the period of 25 days ending with the day before the date of the referendum.”.

Omit subsection (2).

In subsection (3) —

1. (a)

   for “electoral area for which the candidate is standing or in a parish or community, as the case may be, in part comprised in that electoral area”, substitute “voting area”; and

2. (b)

   omit paragraph (b).

In subsection (4) —

1. (a)

   omit the words “and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 5 to this Act”;

2. (b)

   after the words “that section” insert “subject to the substitution in subsection (5) of that section, for the word “candidate” of the word “person””; and

3. (c)

   omit the words from “and any person” to the end.

After subsection (4) insert —

“(5)

The lists maintained by a county council or county borough council of meeting rooms which candidates at a parliamentary election in any constituency are entitled to use shall have effect for the purposes of the referendum; and any person shall, before the referendum, be entitled at all reasonable hours to inspect those lists or a copy of them.”.

For subsection (2), substitute —

“(2)

This section applies to a meeting in connection with a referendum held during the campaign period.

(2A)

In subsection (2), “the campaign period” means the period of 25 days ending with the day before the date of the referendum.”.

In subsection (1), in paragraph (b), after “disregarded”, insert —

“ ; and

(c)

in computing any period referred to in section 96(1A) or 97(2A), as applied for the purposes of a referendum, any of the days so mentioned shall be disregarded.”.

For “the local government Act”, substitute “the Referendums Regulations”.

In paragraph (a), for “in the county in which the local government area for which the election was held is situated or which it adjoins” substitute “for the voting area in which, the offence is alleged to have been committed”.

In subsection (1), insert at the end —

• ““the Referendums Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (Wales) Regulations 2004”.