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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 No. 219
16.—(1) Regulation 61 of the relevant regulations (records and lists)(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.
(2) Paragraph (1) has effect for those purposes as if for the words from “any of the following” to the end there were substituted “the current or final version of the postal voters list, the list of proxies or the proxy postal voters lists which he is required to keep under regulation 63(2), 63(3) or 66(6) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016.”
(3) Paragraph (3) of the Scotland Regulations has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if after sub-paragraph (b) there were inserted—
“or
(c)purposes connected with the referendum,”.
(4) Paragraph (5) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for “paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulation 63(2) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016.”
(5) Paragraph (6) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for “paragraphs 5 and 7(8) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulations 63 and 66(6) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and
(b)for sub-paragraph (b) there were substituted—
“(b)if he is not the counting officer for any voting area or part of a voting area in the area for which he is the registration officer, send to that officer a copy of those lists and provide any subsequent revised lists or revisions to the lists;”.
(6) Paragraph (6A) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)for “parliamentary election” there were substituted “the referendum”,
(b)for “acting returning officer” there were substituted “counting officer”,
(c)for “any constituency or part of a constituency” there were substituted “any voting area or part of a voting area”, and
(d)for “paragraphs 5 and 7(8) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “regulations 63 and 66(6)of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.
(7) Paragraph (7) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if for “the proxy voters list kept under paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 4” there were substituted “the list of proxies kept under regulation 63(3) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.
Regulation 61 of the England and Wales Regulations was substituted by regulation 55 of S.I. 2006/2910 and amended by regulation 27 of S.I. 2013/3198. Regulation 61 of the Scotland Regulations was substituted by regulation 43 of S.I. 2007/925 and amended by regulation 27 of S.I. 2013/3206.
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