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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and Information-Sharing) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022 No. 332
11.—(1) The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 53(5)(b) (additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a definite or indefinite period on grounds of severe sight-impairment or any other disability)(2), after “young people” insert “or the enhanced rate of the mobility component of disability assistance for working age people”.
Regulation 53(5)(b) was relevantly amended by S.I. 2006/2910, S.I. 2013/388, S.I. 2013/591 and S.I. 2021/1188.
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