30Ballot paper designU.K.
(1)Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.
(2)In rule 19 (the ballot papers)—
(a)in paragraph (2), omit sub-paragraph (d);
(b)after paragraph (3) insert—
“(4)The Secretary of State may in regulations—
(a)prescribe a different form of ballot paper from that in the Appendix;
(b)amend or replace the directions as to printing the ballot paper in the Appendix;
(c)in consequence of anything done for the purposes of paragraph (a) or (b), amend or replace the Form of directions for the guidance of the voters in voting in the Appendix.”
(3)In the Appendix of forms, in the Directions as to printing the ballot paper, after paragraph 2A insert—
“2BNothing in paragraph 2 prohibits the face of the ballot paper containing more than one column of numbers, candidates particulars and spaces where the vote is to be marked if the returning officer thinks it is appropriate for the ballot paper to be printed with more than one column, but in such a case each column must be separated by a double vertical rule.”
Commencement Information
I1S. 30 wholly in force at 1.7.2008; s. 30 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 77; s. 30 in force for E.W.S. at 1.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14(n) (subject to Sch. 2); s. 30 in force at 1.7.2008 for N.I. by S.I. 2008/1316, arts. 2(2), 4(l)