The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

Effect of registers U.K.

7.—(1) Section 49 of the 1983 Act(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.

(2) Subsection (4) has effect for those purposes as if—

(a) for “any purpose of this Part relating to him as elector” there were substituted “any purpose of this Part, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 or the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and

(b) for “as an elector except” to the end there were substituted “as a person entitled to vote by virtue of that entry unless the day fixed for the poll for the referendum is that or a later date”.

(3) Subsection (5) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if the following were omitted—

(a) the words “prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or”, and

(b) paragraph (b)(iv).

(4) For the avoidance of doubt, in section 49 of the 1983 Act as applied by this paragraph—

(a) “voting age” has the same meaning as in section 49 as it has effect apart from this Schedule, but

(b) “vote” as a verb is to be read in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Schedule.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 7 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1

(1)

Section 49 was amended by Schedule 5 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50); paragraphs 2 and 7 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22); paragraphs 1 and 12 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2); and paragraphs 1 and 16 of Schedule 4 to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c.6).