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Changes over time for: Paragraph 13
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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Representation of the People Act 2000, Paragraph 13.
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13(1)Section 5 (manner of voting) is amended as follows.N.I.
(2)In subsection (1), omit “or local government”.
(3)In subsection (5), omit “or, as the case may be, electoral area”.
(4)After subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section applies to—
(a)a person to whom section 7 of the principal Act (mental patients who are not detained offenders) applies and who is liable, by virtue of any enactment, to be detained in the mental hospital in question, or
(b)a person to whom section 7A of that Act (persons remanded in custody) applies,
whether he is registered by virtue of that provision or not; and such a person may only vote by post or by proxy (where he is entitled as an elector to vote by post or, as the case may be, by proxy at the election).”
(5)In subsection (6), omit “or local government” (wherever occurring).
(6)For subsection (7) substitute—
“(7)In this section and sections 6 to 9 of this Act “appropriate rules” means the parliamentary elections rules.”
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