Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013

Proxy for existing absent voter need not have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed until after first new canvass

19 (1) The amendment made by section 3 (read with paragraph 18 above) does not apply in relation to a proxy appointment for an existing absent voter (or the proxy’s entitlement to vote) until the registration officer who made the appointment publishes the relevant register following the first new canvass.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a) “proxy appointment” means an appointment of a person as proxy under paragraph 6(7) or (8) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (whether made before, on or after the commencement date);

(b) “existing absent voter”, in relation to a proxy appointment, means a person whose absent voting application was made before the commencement date;

(c) “absent voting application” means the application under paragraph 3(2) or 4(2) or (3) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 by virtue of which the proxy appointment is made;

(d) “relevant register” means the register in which the existing absent voter is registered and which relates to elections of the same kind as those to which the proxy appointment relates.

(3) If a proxy appointment ceases to be in force because sub-paragraph (1) ceases to preserve it, the officer must—

(a) notify the proxy and the existing absent voter in the prescribed manner, and

(b) take any other prescribed steps.

(4) This paragraph does not apply in relation to an existing absent voter who is a relevant person for the purposes of Part 5 or 6 of this Schedule.