SCHEDULE 3APPLICATION OF EXISTING PROVISIONS OF REGULATIONS

PART 1THE 2001 REGULATIONS (ENGLAND AND WALES) AND THE 2001 REGULATIONS (SCOTLAND)

Grant or refusal of applicationsI113

1

Regulation 57 of the relevant regulations (grant or refusal of applications)126 has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.

2

For those purposes, paragraph (3) is treated as omitted.

3

Paragraph (4) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “or Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

4

Paragraph (4A) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if after sub-paragraph (b) there were inserted—

, or

c

regulation 62(5)(a) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 by a person shown as voting by post in a record mentioned in that provision, or

d

regulation 66(5) of those Regulations by a person shown as voting by post in a record mentioned in that provision,

5

Paragraph (4B) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “or regulation 62(5)(a) or 66(5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

6

Paragraph (5) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for “any particular parliamentary or local government election,” there were substituted “the referendum”.

7

For the purposes of the referendum the following paragraph is to be treated as inserted after paragraph (6)—

7

Where the registration officer is not the counting officer for any voting area or part of a voting area in the area for which he is the registration officer, he shall send to that officer details of any application to vote by post which he has granted as soon as practicable after doing so.