Amendments to Schedule 2 to the 2012 Order
12. In Schedule 2, after paragraph 15 insert—
“Additional requirements referred to in paragraph 14(5A)
15A.—(1) This paragraph applies to an application to vote by proxy which is made in the circumstances set out in paragraph 14(5A).
(2) The application must (in addition to providing the information required by paragraph 14(2) and (3)) state—
(a)where the applicant is self-employed, that fact;
(b)where the applicant is employed, the name of the applicant’s employer;
(c)that the reason provided in accordance with paragraph 14(3) relates to the applicant’s occupation, service or employment; and
(d)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 14(3) are true to the best of the attestor’s 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—
(a)one person (‘A’) is related to another (‘B’) if A is the spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of B;
(b)“service voter” means a person who has made a service declaration in accordance with section 15 of the 1983 Act(1) and is registered or entitled to be registered in pursuance of it.”
“the 1983 Act” is defined in article 2 of S.I. 2012/1917.