Elections Act 2022

Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985

28 (1) In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454), paragraph 3 (proxies at local elections) is amended as follows.

(2) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or voting, as proxy at a local election unless the person is or will be registered in—

(a) a register of local electors in Northern Ireland, or

(b) a register of local government electors in Great Britain maintained under section 9 of the 1983 Act.”

(3) In sub-paragraph (2)—

(a) omit the “or” at the end of paragraph (a);

(b) omit paragraph (b).

(4) For sub-paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) A person—

(a) is not entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of more than two electors who do not fall within sub-paragraph (4A), but

(b) subject to paragraph (a), is entitled to vote as proxy at a local election on behalf of up to four electors.

(4A) An elector falls within this sub-paragraph if the elector is registered in a register of local electors in pursuance of a service declaration.

(4B) Where the polls for two or more local elections are held on the same day, references in sub-paragraph (4) to a local election are to all of those elections taken together.”