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Representation of the People Act 2000

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12Changes relating to absent voting at elections in Great Britain

(1)Schedule 4 (which makes provision with respect to the manner of voting at elections, and in particular absent voting) shall have effect, as regards both—

(a)parliamentary elections, and

(b)local government elections,

in relation to England, Wales and Scotland.

(2)Sections 5 to 9 of the Representation of the [1985 c. 50.] People Act 1985 (which, so far as applying in relation to England, Wales and Scotland, are superseded by the provisions of Schedule 4)—

(a)shall cease to have effect in relation to those parts of the United Kingdom; and

(b)shall accordingly continue to have effect only in relation to Northern Ireland as regards parliamentary elections.

(3)Where immediately before the commencement of this section any list or record is kept by a registration officer under any provision of the Representation of the People Act 1985 which ceases to have effect in relation to England, Wales or Scotland in accordance with subsection (2)—

(a)the list or record shall be taken, as from that commencement, to be the list or record required to be kept by him under the corresponding provision of Schedule 4 to this Act; and

(b)anything which, immediately before that commencement, is in the process of being done by him in relation to the list or record may be continued in relation to it as the list or record kept under that corresponding provision.

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