SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5

Transitional provision to do with Part 1
PART 4

Absent voting

Proxy for existing absent voter need not have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed until after first new canvass
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1
The amendment made by section 3 (read with paragraph 18 above) does not apply in relation to a proxy appointment for an existing absent voter (or the proxy's entitlement to vote) until the registration officer who made the appointment publishes the relevant register following the first new canvass.
2
In this paragraph—
a
“proxy appointment” means an appointment of a person as proxy under paragraph 6(7) or (8) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (whether made before, on or after the commencement date);
b
“existing absent voter”, in relation to a proxy appointment, means a person whose absent voting application was made before the commencement date;
c
“absent voting application” means the application under paragraph 3(2) or 4(2) or (3) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 by virtue of which the proxy appointment is made;
d
“relevant register” means the register in which the existing absent voter is registered and which relates to elections of the same kind as those to which the proxy appointment relates.
3
If a proxy appointment ceases to be in force because sub-paragraph (1) ceases to preserve it, the officer must—
a
notify the proxy and the existing absent voter in the prescribed manner, and
b
take any other prescribed steps.
4
This paragraph does not apply in relation to an existing absent voter who is a relevant person for the purposes of Part 5 or 6 of this Schedule.