Personation
55.—(1) A person commits an offence if he or she commits, or aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of, the offence of personation.
(2) A person commits the offence of personation if he or she—
(a)votes by post as some other person, whether as an elector or as proxy and whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person; or
(b)votes by post as proxy—
(i)for a person whom he or she knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing to be dead or to be a fictitious person; or
(ii)when he or she knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing that his or her appointment as proxy is no longer in force.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person who has marked, whether validly or not, and returned a ballot paper issued for the purpose of voting by post, is deemed to have voted.