The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006

Additional requirements for certain proxy applications for a particular election

43.—(1) Regulation 55(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2)(a) for “physical incapacity” substitute “disability”.

(3) In paragraph (3)—

(a) for “regulation 53(4)” substitute “regulation 53”; and

(b) for “physically incapacitated” substitute “disabled”.

(4) After paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) Where an application under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4 is made by a person to whom paragraph 2(5A) of that Schedule applies after 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the date of the poll at the election for which it is made, the requirements of paragraph (5) below as to the matters to be specified and as to attestation shall apply.

(5) Where an application mentioned in paragraph (4) above is made—

(a) the application shall additionally state the name and address of the hospital at which the applicant is liable to be detained; and

(b) the application shall be attested by or on behalf of a manager, within the meaning of section 145(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983, of the hospital at which the applicant is liable to be detained, and the attestation shall state—

(i) the name of the person attesting the application;

(ii) his position in the hospital at which the applicant is liable to be detained;

(iii) that he is a person authorised to make the attestation; and

(iv) the statutory provision under which the applicant is liable to be detained in the hospital.

(6) This regulation does not apply where an applicant has an anonymous entry.”

(1)

Regulation 55 has been amended by S.I. 2006/752.