77.—(1) Regulation 61 of the 2008 Regulations (closing date for applications) has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.
(2) For those purposes the following paragraphs are to be treated as substituted for paragraphs (1) to (3)—
“(1) An application under section 6(1) or (5), 8(6) or 9(4) of the 1985 Act shall be disregarded for the purposes of the referendum if it is received by the registration officer after 5 pm on the fourteenth day before the date of the poll for the referendum.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an application under regulation 73(1) or (5), 75(4) or 77(5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 shall be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5 pm on the fourteenth day before the date of the poll for the referendum.
(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to an application which satisfies the requirements of either paragraphs (6) and (7) or paragraph (8) of regulation 59; and such an application shall be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5 pm on the sixth day before the date of the poll for the referendum.”
(3) Paragraph (4) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)after “section 8(9) of that Act by an elector” there were inserted “, or a notice under regulation 75(6) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 by a person,”,
(b)for “a particular election” there were substituted “the referendum”, and
(c)for “at that election” there were substituted “for the referendum”.
(4) For the purposes of the referendum the following paragraph is to be treated as substituted for paragraphs (5) and (6)—
“(5) In computing a period of days for the purposes of this regulation the following days are to be disregarded—
(a)a Saturday or Sunday, and
(b)Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday and any other day that is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 77 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1