The Local Government Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Members) Regulations 1995

16.  In Schedule 2, Form D (proxy paper) shall be amended as follows:

(a)at the end of paragraph 2 of the note entitled “Your right to vote as proxy” on the back of the form there shall be added:

  • If the person on whose behalf you have the right to vote is a citizen of a Member State of the European Community other than the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, you may vote on his or her behalf only at local government elections and not at parliamentary elections., and

(b)in paragraph 3 of the said note, after the penultimate sentence, there shall be inserted:

  • You are also capable of being appointed as proxy if you are a citizen of any other Member State of the European Community, but in that case you may only be appointed as proxy for local government elections and not for parliamentary elections..