The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

Additional requirements for applications for proxy to vote

11.—(1) Regulation 55 of the relevant regulations (additional requirement for applications for proxy to vote) applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.

(2) For those purposes the following paragraph is to be treated as substituted for paragraph (1)—

“(1) An application under regulation 62(2) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 to vote by proxy in the referendum is to set out why the applicant’s circumstances on the date of the poll will be or are likely to be such that the applicant cannot reasonably be expected to vote in person at the polling station allotted to the applicant under Part 2 of those Regulations.”

(3) Paragraph (2) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a) for “paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulation 62(2) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and

(b) for “at the election for which it is made” there were substituted “for the referendum”.

(4) Paragraph (3A) of the England and Wales Regulations and paragraph (4) of the Scotland Regulations has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a) for “paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulation 62(2) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and

(b) for “at the election for which it is made” there were substituted “for the referendum”.

(5) Paragraph (4) of the England and Wales Regulations and paragraph (3A) of the Scotland Regulations has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—

(a) for “paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulation 62(2) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”,

(b) for “paragraph 2(5A) of that Schedule” there were substituted “regulation 60(7) of those Regulations”, and

(c) for “at the election for which it is made” there were substituted “for the referendum”.