14. Subsections (2) and (4) to (8) of section 7 (residence: voluntary mental patients) and section 62(1) (offences as to declarations) of, and the definition of “prescribed” in section 202(1) of, the Act of 1983 shall apply in respect of a relevant citizen of the Union who is a voluntary mental patient and any patient’s declaration made by him as they apply to a voluntary mental patient and any declaration made by him under that Act, but with the following modifications:
(a)for sub-paragraph (v) of subsection (4)(d) there shall be substituted—
“(v)the nationality of the declarant on the date of the declaration,”;
(b)in subsection (7)(c) for the words “a Commonwealth citizen or citizen of the Republic of Ireland” there shall be substituted “of the nationality stated in the declaration”; and
(c)after subsection (8) there shall be added—
“(8A) A patient’s declaration under this section as applied by regulation 14 of the European Parliamentary Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Representatives) Regulations 1994 has effect for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections only.”.