Amendment to provision about additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote in respect of a particular election

5.  For regulation 55 of the 2001 Regulations substitute–

“Additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote in respect of a particular election

55.— (1) An application under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4 to vote by proxy at a particular election shall set out why the applicant’s circumstances on the date of the poll for that election in respect of which it is made will be or are likely to be such that he cannot reasonably be expected to vote in person at his allotted polling station.

(2) Where an application under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4–

(a) is made on the grounds of the applicant’s physical incapacity; and

(b) is made after 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of poll at the election for which it is made,

the requirements of regulation 53 as to the matters to be specified and the attestation shall apply.

(3) Where an application mentioned in paragraph (2) is made, the person who attests the application shall state, in addition to those matters specified in regulation 53(4), to the best of his knowledge and belief, the date upon which the applicant became physically incapacitated.

(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a local government election in Scotland.”.