Entitlement to registration and legal incapacity to vote in Gibraltar

42.—(1) Schedule 4 is amended as follows.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (6), for “Ordinance” (wherever it occurs) substitute “Act”(1).

(3) For “European Parliamentary Elections Ordinance 2004” (wherever it occurs) substitute “2004 Act”.

(4) In paragraph 2(3) (time), omit “Maundy Thursday,”.

(5) In paragraph 4(2)(c) (legal incapacity to vote of offenders detained in mental hospitals) for “an admission order has been made under section 116B” substitute “a hospital order has been made under section 116A”(2).

(6) In paragraph 4(3) (legal incapacity to vote of offenders detained in mental hospitals), omit “Ordinance or” (in both places).

(7) Omit paragraph 7 (alteration of Gibraltar register: pending elections).

(8) In paragraph 17(2)(a) (service declaration) for “12 months” substitute “3 years”.

(1)

The Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006 renamed Gibraltar Ordinances as “Acts”.

(2)

The Army Act 1955 (c.18) has been amended by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c.28) and this amendment is consequential on the provision made for hospital orders under the Army Act 1955 as amended.