Amendments to Schedule 2 to the 2004 Regulations
36. In Schedule 2, after paragraph 25 insert—
“Additional requirements for application for an emergency proxy vote in respect of a particular election based on occupation, service or employment
25A.—(1) This paragraph sets out the requirements referred to in paragraph 25(3A).
(2) The application must (in addition to providing the information required by paragraph 25(1)) state—
(a)where the applicant is self-employed, that fact; and in any other case the name of the applicant’s employer;
(b)that the reason provided in accordance with paragraph 25(1) relates to the applicant’s occupation, service or employment; and
(c)the date on which the applicant became aware of that reason.
(3) Sub-paragraphs (4), (5) and (6) apply unless the applicant is or will be registered as a service voter.
(4) The application must be attested and signed—
(a)where the applicant is self-employed, by a person who—
(i)is aged 18 years or over;
(ii)knows the applicant; and
(iii)is not related to the applicant,
(b)where the applicant is not self-employed, by the applicant’s employer or by another employee to whom this function is delegated by the employer.
(5) The person attesting an application under sub-paragraph (4) (the “attestor”) must certify that the statements required by sub-paragraph (2) and the information required by paragraph 25(1) are true to the best of their knowledge and belief.
(6) The attestor must also state—
(a)the attestor’s name and address; and
(b)if the attestor is attesting where the applicant is self-employed, that the attestor is aged 18 years or over, and that the attestor knows, but is not related to, the applicant; or
(c)if the attestor is attesting as or on behalf of the employer of the applicant, that the attestor is the employer or the position the attestor holds in the employment of that employer.
(7) For the purposes of this paragraph, one person (‘A’) is related to another (‘B’) if A is the spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of B.”