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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
6.—(1) Regulation 51 of the relevant regulations (general requirements for applications for an absent vote)(1) has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.
(2) Paragraph (1) has effect for those purposes as if after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “or Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.
(3) Paragraph (2) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)in sub-paragraph (b), after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “or regulation 66(4) or (5) of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”, and
(b)in sub-paragraph (f), after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “or regulation 62 or 66 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016,”.
(4) For the purposes of the referendum the following paragraph is to be treated as inserted after paragraph (5)—
“(5A) An application that is made under Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 for the purposes of the referendum must state that it is so made.”
Regulation 51 of the England and Wales Regulations was amended by regulation 3 of S.I. 2006/752 and regulation 32 of S.I. 2006/2910. Regulation 51 of the Scotland Regulations was amended by regulation 3 of S.I. 2006/834 and regulation 3 of S.I. 2008/305.
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