SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2U.K. Manner of Voting

Part IU.K. Consequential Amendments of Principal Act

2U.K.In section 61 (voting offences)—

(a)in subsection (1)(a) for the words from “be treated” to the end there shall be substituted the words “vote by proxy or by post as elector, at a parliamentary or local government election, or at parliamentary or local government elections, knowing that he is subject to a legal incapacity to vote at the election or, as the case may be, at elections of that kind; or”;

(b)in subsection (1)(b) for the words from “parliamentary” to the end there shall be substituted the words “any parliamentary or local government election or at parliamentary or local government elections knowing that he or the person to be appointed is subject to a legal incapacity to vote at the election or, as the case may be, at elections of that kind; or”;

(c)in subsection (1)(c) the words “or applies to vote by post” shall cease to have effect;

(d)in subsection (2)(d) the words “not being a service voter” shall cease to have effect, after the word “elections” there shall be inserted the words “in any constituency” and after the word “force” and the words “an appointment” there shall be inserted the words “in respect of that or another constituency”;

(e)subsection (3)(c) shall cease to have effect; and

(f)in subsection (4) after the word “constituency” there shall be inserted the words “or at a local government election in any electoral area”.