PART IIICHANGES TO THE FRANCHISE AND PROVISIONS ABOUT REGISTRATION

Amendments about electors to European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 198615

1

In regulation 4 of the European Regulations (interpretation of those Regulations and of provisions applied by them)—

a

in the definition of “elector”, the word “either” shall be omitted and for the words “or section 3 of the Act of 1985” there shall be substituted “, section 3 of the Act of 1985 or regulation 7 of the Regulations of 1994”; and

b

in the definition of “register”, after paragraph (b), there shall be added—

and

  1. a

    a register under regulation 9 of the Regulations of 1994

2

In regulation 5(11) of the European Regulations (references to proxy papers) after the words “proxy for” there shall be inserted “a relevant citizen of the Union registered as a European Parliamentary elector or”.

3

There shall be inserted the following modification of section 49 of the Act of 198325 (effect of registers), as applied by the left-hand column of Schedule 1 to the European Regulations (application with modifications of provisions of the Representation of the People Acts 1983 and 1985 for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections), in the right-hand column of that Schedule:

In subsection (5), for the words “Republic of Ireland”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted “Union”.

4

There shall be inserted the following modification of section 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (proxies at elections), as applied by the left-hand column of Schedule 1 to the European Regulations, before the existing modification in the right-hand column of that Schedule:

In subsection (3)(b) for the words “Republic of Ireland” there shall be substituted “Union”.

5

In Part II of Schedule 4 to the European Regulations—

a

in the heading, for the words after “FOR A PROXY” there shall be substituted “FOR AN ELECTOR AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ONLY”;

b

in the form, after the word “who” there shall be inserted “*is qualified to be registered as a European Parliamentary elector for (Qualifying address)…*”; and

c

in note 3 of the notes to that form, for the words “the Republic of Ireland” there shall be substituted “a Member State of the European Communities”.