Proxies at Assembly elections
11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, any person is capable of being appointed proxy to vote for another (in this article and article 12 referred to as “the elector”) at any Assembly election and may vote in pursuance of the appointment.
(2) The elector cannot have more than one person at a time appointed as proxy to vote for him at an Assembly election (whether in the same Assembly constituency or elsewhere).
(3) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at an Assembly election—
(a)if he is subject to any legal incapacity (age apart) to vote at that election as an elector; or
(b)if he is neither a qualifying Commonwealth citizen nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland nor a relevant citizen of the Union.
(4) A person is not capable of voting as proxy at an Assembly election unless on the date of the poll he has attained the age of eighteen.
(5) A person is not entitled to vote as proxy—
(a)in the case of an Assembly general election in the same Assembly constituency, or constituencies in the same electoral region;
(b)in the case of a constituency election other than at an Assembly general election, in the same constituency election;
(c)in a regional election,
on behalf of more than two persons of whom he is not the spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild.
(6) Where the elector applies to the registration officer for the appointment of a proxy to vote for him at Assembly elections (whether for an indefinite period or for a particular period specified in his application), the registration officer shall make the appointment if the application meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 and he is satisfied that the elector is or will be—
(a)registered in the register; and
(b)shown in the record kept under article 8 as voting by proxy at such elections,
and that the proxy is capable of being and willing to be appointed to vote as proxy at such elections.
(7) Where the elector applies to the registration officer for the appointment of a proxy to vote for him at a particular Assembly election, the registration officer shall make the appointment if the application contains the signature and date of birth of the applicant and meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 and he is satisfied that the elector is or will be—
(a)registered in the register for that election; and
(b)entitled to vote by proxy at that election by virtue of an application under article 9,
and that the proxy is capable of being, and willing to be, appointed.
(8) The appointment of a proxy under this article is to be made by means of a proxy paper issued by the registration officer.
(9) The appointment may be cancelled by the elector by giving notice to the registration officer and shall also cease to be in force on the issue of a proxy paper appointing a different person to vote for him at an Assembly election or Assembly elections (whether in the same Assembly constituency or elsewhere), and where the appointment was for a particular period, the appointment shall cease to be in force once that period expires.
(10) Subject to paragraph (9), the appointment shall remain in force—
(a)in the case of an appointment for a particular election, for that election; and
(b)in any other case, while the elector is shown as voting by proxy in the record kept under article 8 in pursuance of the same application under that article.