SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3FURTHER PROVISION ABOUT THE REFERENDUM
Counting officers
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1
Accordingly, section 128 of the 2000 Act (Chief Counting Officers, and counting officers, for referendums) has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.
2
For the purposes of the referendum subsection (3) is to be treated as omitted.
3
Subsection (5) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for the words “the area for which he is appointed” there were substituted “
the voting area for which the counting officer acts
”
.
4
Subsection (9) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
a
for paragraph (a) there were substituted—
a
voting area” has the meaning given by section 11 of the European Union Referendum Act 2015;
b
paragraph (b) were omitted, and
c
for paragraph (c) there were substituted—
c
the referendum area” means the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.