Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013

Proxy for relevant person need not have made successful new application for registration until relevant person’s first successful new application for registration

27 (1) The amendment made by section 3 of this Act (read with paragraph 18 above) does not apply in relation to a proxy appointment for a relevant person (or the proxy’s entitlement to vote) until the first occasion on which the relevant person makes a successful new application for registration in the relevant register.

(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) “relevant register” means the register 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 relevant person in the prescribed manner, and

(b) take any other prescribed steps.