SCHEDULES

SEVENTH SCHEDULE F1PROXIES

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

Ext., SI 1977/428

PART I[Title rep. by 1968 c.20 (NI) s.8 sch.4 Pt.I]

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Voting by proxies.

1

A person shall not vote as proxy unless he is duly qualified under paragraph 1.

2

A proxy shall vote in person at the polling station to which the elector for whom he is proxy is, or would have been allotted and at no other polling station.

3

A service elector who has appointed a proxy may vote in person at any election if he applies for a ballot paper before the issue of a ballot paper to his proxy; and if and so soon as he so receives a ballot paper the appointment of his proxy shall cease to have effect as respects that election.

4

A presiding officer shall not deliver a ballot paper to any person applying to vote as proxy unless that person satisfies the presiding officer (whether by production of his proxy paper or otherwise) that he is the person whose name is entered in the list of proxies.

5

The provisions of this Act relating to voting shall, save in so far as any such provision is inconsistent therewith, have effect in relation to proxies as they have effect in relation to other voters.