Article 10 Article 12 (Voting as proxy at Assembly elections)

Article 12 of the principal Order shall be amended as follows.

For paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4)

Where a person applies to the registration officer to vote by post—

(a)

as proxy at Assembly elections (whether for an indefinite period or for a particular period specified in his application), or

(b)

as proxy at a particular Assembly election,

the registration officer shall (subject to paragraph (12)) grant the application if the conditions set out in paragraph (4A) are satisfied.

(4A)

Those conditions are—

(a)

that the registration officer is satisfied that the elector is or will be registered in the register of local government electors, and

(b)

that there is in force an appointment of the applicant as the elector’s proxy to vote for him at Assembly elections or, as the case may be, the Assembly election concerned, and

(c)

that the application meets the requirements set out in Schedule 2.”.

Omit paragraphs (5), (7) and (10).

For paragraph (6) substitute—

“(6)

The registration officer shall keep a record of those whose applications under paragraph (4)(a) have been granted showing—

(a)

whether their applications were to vote by post as proxy for an indefinite or a particular period (specifying that period), and

(b)

the addresses provided by them in their applications as the addresses to which their ballot papers are to be sent.”.

In paragraph (9)—

In paragraph (11), for sub-paragraph (b), substitute—

“(b)

in the case of a person who applied to vote by post as proxy for a particular period, once that period expires.”;

and in sub-paragraph (c), for “10(a)” substitute “(4)(a)”.