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 ”.