45.—(1) Section 199B(1) to (9) of the 1983 Act(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.
(2) For those purposes, the following subsection is to be treated as substituted for subsection (1)—
“(1) Subsections (2) and (3) below apply to any document which under or by virtue of this Act, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 or the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 is required or authorised—
(a)to be given to voters, or
(b)to be displayed in any place in the United Kingdom, for the purposes of the referendum.”
(3) Subsection (4) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if paragraph (a) were omitted.
(4) For the purposes of the referendum the following subsections are to be treated as substituted for subsections (5) to (7)—
“(5) The counting officer for a voting area in the United Kingdom may cause to be displayed at every polling station in that area an enlarged sample copy of the ballot paper.
(6) The sample copy mentioned in subsection (5) above—
(a)must have printed on it the words “Put a cross (X) in one box only” both at the top and immediately below the referendum question, and
(b)below the second occurrence of those words, may include a translation of those words into such other languages as the counting officer thinks appropriate.
(7) The counting officer for a voting area in the United Kingdom must provide at every polling station in that area an enlarged hand-held sample copy of the ballot paper for the assistance of voters who are partially sighted.”
(5) Subsection (9) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for “returning officer” there were substituted “counting officer”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 45 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1
Section 199B was inserted by section 36 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22).