Article 6 Article 7 (Manner of voting at Assembly elections)

In article 7 of the principal Order, after paragraph (6) there shall be inserted—

“(6A)

Nothing in the preceding provisions of this article applies to—

(a)

a person to whom section 7 of the 1983 Act (mental patients who are not detained offenders) applies and who is liable, by virtue of any enactment, to be detained in the mental hospital in question, or

(b)

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

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