Introductory Text
1.Name, commencement and application
2.Interpretation
3.The statement and the question to be asked in a referendum
4.Publicity and other information in connection with referendums
5.Restriction on publication etc. of promotional material
6.General restriction on referendum expenses
7.Notional referendum expenses
8.Application of provisions
9.Ballot papers
10.Postal ballots and postal votes
11.Counting officer’s functions, and assistance for counting officers
12.Hours of polling
13.Counting of votes etc.
14.Result of referendum or further referendum
15.Procedures for questioning a referendum
16.Immediate consequences of referendum petitions
17.Determination of referendum petitions, and subsequent procedures
18.Time
19.Advertisements
20.Non-domestic rating: premises used for referendum purposes
Signature
SCHEDULE 1
PART I
PART II FORM OF FRONT OF BALLOT PAPER
PART III FORM OF BACK OF BALLOT PAPER
SCHEDULE 2
MATTERS RELEVANT TO REFERENDUM EXPENSES
1.(a) Advertising of any nature (whatever the medium used). Expenses...
2.Nothing in paragraph 1 shall be taken as extending to...
SCHEDULE 3
APPLICATION, WITH MODIFICATIONS, OF ACTS AND STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
TABLE 1 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 2000
TABLE 2 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983
TABLE 3 THE LOCAL ELECTIONS (PRINCIPAL AREAS) RULES 1986: SCHEDULE 2
TABLE 4 THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (ENGLAND AND WALES) REGULATIONS 2001
SCHEDULE 4
ADDITIONAL MODIFICATIONS AS REGARDS REFERENDUM AT WHICH VOTING TO BE BY POST ONLY
SCHEDULE 5
APPLICATION, WITH FURTHER MODIFICATIONS, OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983 IN RELATION TO REFERENDUM PETITIONS
SCHEDULE 6
MODIFICATIONS OF THE ELECTION PETITION RULES 1960
Explanatory Note