The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985

Entitlement of proxy to vote by post/or an indefinite period under Act of 1983

3.—(1) This paragraph applies where a local elector is entitled to vote by proxy by virtue of paragraph 2(1) and (3) and that proxy—

(a) is entitled to vote by post as proxy at elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in respect of that elector for an indefinite period by virtue of subsections (6)(b) and (7) of section 22 of the Act of 1983,

(b) is included not later than noon on the eleventh day before the day of the poll in the record of persons whose applications to vote by post as proxy are for the time being allowed, kept by the Chief Electoral Officer as registration officer under section 22(8) of the Act of 1983, and

in respect of whom that Officer has, before the time mentioned in paragraph (b), received an application in Form 2, requesting that the applicant's entitlement to vote by post as proxy for an indefinite period at elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom should also have effect for an indefinite period at local elections.

(2) A proxy to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies may, by virtue of this paragraph, vote by post as proxy at local elections for as long as he is so entitled to vote at elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and the address given in the record kept under section 22(8) of the Act of 1983 as the address to which a ballot paper is to be sent shall be the address for that purpose at local elections.

(3) The Chief Electoral Officer shall include the names of those proxies who are entitled to vote by post at a local election under the provisions of this paragraph in the list referred to in rule 24(2) of the local elections rules.

(4) The Chief Electoral Officer shall notify an applicant if he disallows his application under sub-paragraph (1).