Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006

32 Certain voters entitled to vote in person S

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act (absent voting in Great Britain)—

(a) before sub-paragraph (6) insert—

“(5B) In relation to a local government election in Scotland, nothing in the preceding provisions of this paragraph applies to a person to whom section 7 of the 1983 Act (mental patients who are not detained offenders) applies and who is liable, by virtue of any enactment, to be detained in the mental hospital in question, whether he is registered by virtue of that provision or not; and such a person may vote—

(a) in person (where he is granted permission to be absent from the hospital and voting in person does not breach any condition attached to that permission), or

(b) by post or by proxy (where he is entitled as an elector to vote by post or, as the case may be, by proxy at the election).”,

(b) in sub-paragraph (6), paragraph (a) and the “or” following it, so far as applying in relation to a local government election in Scotland, are repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 32 wholly in force at 17.2.2007, see s. 63(2) and S.S.I. 2007/26, art. 3(1)(g) (with transitional provisions in art. 3(2))