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Schedules

Schedule 4Proxy voting: limits and transitional provision

Termination of applications for certain proxy appointments on the specified day

10(1)An application for a proxy appointment that is made before, but not determined by, the day specified for the purposes of this paragraph (“the specified day”) is to be treated as not having been made so far as the application relates to—

(a)parliamentary elections in England and Wales or Scotland or local government elections in England (or both), or

(b)a particular parliamentary election in England and Wales or Scotland or local government election in England.

(2)The registration officer must, as soon as practicable, send each person whose application is affected by sub-paragraph (1) information about how to make a fresh application to vote by proxy.

(3)Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the application was made on or after the day on which paragraph 2(2) comes into force.

(4)Expressions used in this paragraph and in paragraph 8 have the same meaning as in that paragraph.