6. In regulation 24(1), for the words “For the purposes of this paragraph” to the end of the paragraph, substitute—E+W+S
“For the purposes of this paragraph, references to a person being subject to a legal incapacity to vote do not, in relation to things done before polling day at the election or first election at which or for which they are done—
(i)include his being below voting age if he will be of voting age on that day;
(ii)include his being a citizen of an Accession State, and therefore not entitled to vote until the Accession State in question accedes to the European Union on 1st May 2004.”