SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 6 Minor and consequential amendments
Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)
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1
Section 7 (absent vote at a particular election and absent voters list) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1), omit—
a
“or local government”; and
b
in paragraph (b), “or, as the case may be, local government”.
3
For subsection (2) substitute—
2
Subsection (1) above does not apply to a person who is included in the record kept under section 6 of this Act, but such a person may, in respect of a particular parliamentary election, apply to the registration officer—
a
for his ballot paper to be sent to a different address in the United Kingdom, or
b
to vote by proxy,
if he is shown in the record so kept as voting by post at parliamentary elections.
4
In subsection (4)—
a
omit “or local government”; and
b
in each of paragraphs (a) and (b), for “elections of the kind in question” substitute “
parliamentary elections
”
.