The Overseas Electors, Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy (Amendment) Rules 2023

Amendment of the Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987

2.—(1) The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In rule 6 (application of provisions in the Act of 1983)—

(a) after paragraph (d) insert—

“(da) in respect of the election of the chairman of a parish meeting or a poll consequent on a parish meeting, section 66 is to be read as if—

(i) subsections (3A) to (4) and any reference to an election agent or the proxy for an elector were omitted;

(ii) in subsections (2)(b), (3)(b), (c) and (d), (4A) and (5), after “the candidate for whom” there were inserted “or the manner in which”;”;

(b) in paragraph (e), at the beginning insert “in respect of a poll consequent on a community meeting,”.

(3) In the Schedule, in paragraph 13 (notification of requirement of secrecy)—

(a) for “voter with disabilities” substitute “relevant voter within the meaning of section 66(4B) of the Representation of the People Act 1983”;

(b) for “rule 6(e)” substitute “rule 6(da) or (e)”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2022/1284; 2023/1066.