SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transitional provision to do with Part 1

PART 4Absent voting

19Proxy for existing absent voter need not have made successful new application for registration or had registration confirmed until after first new canvass

1

The amendment made by section 3 (read with paragraph 18 above) does not apply in relation to a proxy appointment for an existing absent voter (or the proxy’s entitlement to vote) until the registration officer who made the appointment publishes the relevant register following the first new canvass.

2

In this paragraph—

a

“proxy appointment” means an appointment of a person as proxy under paragraph 6(7) or (8) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (whether made before, on or after the commencement date);

b

“existing absent voter”, in relation to a proxy appointment, means a person whose absent voting application was made before the commencement date;

c

“absent voting application” means the application under paragraph 3(2) or 4(2) or (3) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 by virtue of which the proxy appointment is made;

d

“relevant register” means the register in which the existing absent voter is registered and which relates to elections of the same kind as those to which the proxy appointment relates.

3

If a proxy appointment ceases to be in force because sub-paragraph (1) ceases to preserve it, the officer must—

a

notify the proxy and the existing absent voter in the prescribed manner, and

b

take any other prescribed steps.

4

This paragraph does not apply in relation to an existing absent voter who is a relevant person for the purposes of Part 5 or 6 of this Schedule.