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Paragraph 12 SignaturesF1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The business registration officer may dispense with the requirement for a named voter to provide a signature if that officer is satisfied that the named voter is unable—

(a)

to provide a signature because of any disability the person has,

(b)

to provide a signature because the person is unable to read or write, or

(c)

to sign in a consistent and distinctive way because of any such disability or inability.

(2)

The signature and date of birth on the voting choices form must be set out in a manner that is sufficiently clear and unambiguous as to be capable of electronic scanning into the record by configuring the information as follows—

(a)

each signature must appear against a background of white unlined paper of at least five centimetres long and two centimetres high; and

(b)

each date of birth must be set out numerically configured in the sequence of date, month and year, namely [d][d][m][m][y][y][y][y].

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Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 6 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/798), regs. 1, 7, Sch. 1