71.—(1) Regulation 55 of the 2008 Regulations (general requirements for applications for an absent vote)(1) has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.
(2) Paragraph (1) has effect for those purposes as if after “the 1985 Act” there were inserted “or Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.
(3) Paragraph (2) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)after “section 6(1) or 7(1)” there were inserted “of the 1985 Act or regulation 73(1) or 77(5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”,
(b)after “section 7(1)(ba) to (bc) of the 1985 Act” there were inserted “regulation 73(1)(c) to (e) or 77(5)(d) of those Regulations”,
(c)in sub-paragraph (b), after “the 1985 Act” there were inserted “or regulation 77(5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”,
(d)in sub-paragraph (c) for “such an application” there were substituted “an application under section 9 of the 1985 Act”, and
(e)in sub-paragraph (d), after “the 1985 Act” there were inserted “or regulation 73(1) or 77(5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 71 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1
Regulation 55 was amended by regulation 16 of S.I. 2014/1808.