Paragraph 8 Additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a particular or indefinite period based on occupation, service, employment or attendance on a courseI1

whether the occupation, service or employment in respect of which it is made is that of the applicant or the applicant’s spouse or civil partner, or whether it is the applicant or the applicant’s spouse or civil partner who is attending the course provided by an educational institution in respect of which the application is made,

the nature of the occupation, service, employment or course provided by an educational institution giving rise to the application,

where the person in respect of whose occupation, service or employment it is made, in this paragraph referred to as “the employed person”, is self-employed, that fact, and in any other case, the name of that person’s employer, and

the reason relevant to the general nature of the occupation, service or employment in question, or the course provided by an educational institution, why the applicant or their spouse or civil partner cannot reasonably be expected to go in person to their allotted polling station.

where the applicant is self-employed, by a person who—

where the applicant or their spouse or civil partner is employed, by the employer or by another employee to whom this function is delegated by the employer, or

where the applicant or their spouse or civil partner is attending a course provided by an educational institution, by the director or tutor of that course or by the principal or head of that institution or an employee to whom this function is delegated by the principal or head.

where the applicant is the employed person, the self-employed person or the person attending the course, certify that the statements included in the application in accordance with the requirements of sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (d) are true, or

where the applicant is the spouse or civil partner of the employed person, the self-employed person or the person attending the course, certify that the statements included in the application in accordance with the requirements of sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (c) are true.

in the case of a person who attests under sub-paragraph (2)(a), their name and address, and that they are aged 16 years or over, know the self-employed person, but are not related to that person;

in the case of a person who attests under sub-paragraph (2)(b), either that they are the employer of the employed person or the position they hold in the employment of that employer;

in the case of a person who attests under sub-paragraph (2)(c), the post they hold at the institution.