# The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012, Paragraph 12: Signatures


(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/6/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-6/paragraph-12
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