{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3304",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Votes marked by presiding officer",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), the presiding officer, on the application of a voter—\n(a) who is incapacitated by blindness or other disability from voting in the manner directed by these Rules, or\n(b) who declares orally that he is unable to read,\nmust, in the presence of the polling agents, cause the voter’s vote to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.\n(1A) Paragraphs (1A) to (1M) of rule 35 apply in the case of a voter who applies under paragraph (1) of this rule as those paragraphs apply in the case of a voter who applies under rule 35(1), but as if—\n(a) references to delivering a ballot paper to a voter were to causing a voter’s vote to be marked on a ballot paper, and\n(b) in rule 35(1G), the reference to paragraph (1) of rule 35 were to paragraph (1) of this rule.\n(2) The name and number on the register of electors of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, must be entered on a list (in these Rules called “the list of votes marked by the presiding officer”).\nIn the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be entered together with the voter’s name shall be the elector’s number.\n(3) In the case of a person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act, paragraph (2) applies as if for “on the register of electors of every voter” there were substituted “relating to every voter in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act”.\n(4) The same list may be used for the principal area election and each relevant election or referendum and, where it is so used, an entry in that list shall be taken to mean that the ballot papers were so marked in respect of each election or referendum, unless the list identifies the election or referendum at which the ballot paper was so marked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 rule 36(1) substituted (16.1.2023 with application in accordance with rule 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Voter Identification (Principal Area, Parish and Greater London Authority Elections) (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1397), rules 1(1), 5(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 rule 36(1A) inserted (16.1.2023 with application in accordance with rule 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Voter Identification (Principal Area, Parish and Greater London Authority Elections) (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1397), rules 1(1), 5(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 rule 36(4) excluded (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), s. 19(2), Sch. 5 para. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3304/schedule/3/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:11.237089+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}