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SCHEDULES

SEVENTH SCHEDULE F1N.I.PROXIES

F1Ext., SI 1977/428

PART IN.I.[Title rep. by 1968 c.20 (NI) s.8 sch.4 Pt.I]

2N.I.Record of proxies.

(1)The electoral officer shall keep in the prescribed form a record of the proxies appointed under paragraph 1 (in this Schedule referred to as the proxy record), and on receiving notice of the death of a proxy or of the elector who appointed him, the cancellation of the appointment of a proxy, or the appointment of a fresh proxy, shall amend the proxy record accordingly; and the electoral officer shall delete from the proxy record the name of any proxy when the period of his appointment expires or if the person who appointed him ceases to be an elector.

(2)The proxy record shall set out separately the proxies of service electors; and as soon as a service elector ceases to be qualified as a service elector the electoral officer shall delete from the proxy record the name of the proxy of that elector.

(3)On the initiation of a parliamentary election the electoral officer shall prepare by reference to the proxy record the list of proxies in the prescribed form for use at that election, and—

(a)shall omit from the list the name of any proxy whose appointment will, according to the proxy record, expire before the polling day;

(b)shall disregard—

(i)any appointment of a proxy;

(ii)any cancellation of the appointment of a proxy;

made or as the case may be received later than four days before the nomination day.

(4)The list of proxies so prepared shall—

(a)be treated as setting out all the proxies entitled to vote at the election;

(b)have effect for the purposes of one election only.

(5)The electoral officer shall furnish a copy of the list of proxies to the returning officer not later than five o'clock in the afternoon of the nomination day.

(6)The electoral officer shall permit any interested person during ordinary office hours to examine and make copies of or extracts from any entries in the proxy record or list of proxies, and on the application of any such person shall supply to him copies of such record or list on payment by that person, for the first copy, of a fee of [F2 50p] for any number of names not exceeding one hundred together with [F2 25p] for every further fifty names (or part thereof), and for any subsequent copy half of each of those amounts.

F2Subst. by virtue of 1969 c.19