Amendments to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

2.—(1) The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1 (European Parliamentary elections rules)(2), rule 53(3) (the count), for “them” substitute “the numbers or other unique identifying marks printed on the back of the papers”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (absent voting)(3)—

(a) in paragraph 36(7) (requiring personal identifiers from existing absent voters), for “an elections” substitute “an election”;

(b) in paragraph 39(1)(a) (consequences of failure or refusal to provide personal identifiers), for “voting records” substitute “absent voting records”;

(c) in paragraph 54(10) (lost postal ballot papers), for “regulation 52” substitute “paragraph 52”; and

(d) in paragraph 70(1) (forwarding of documents), for “those rules” substitute “the European Parliamentary elections rules”.

(1)

S.I. 2004/293 as modified by S.I.2004/294 and amended by S.I 2004/1771, S.I.2005/2114 and S.I 2009/186.

(2)

Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 39 and Schedule 2.

(3)

Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186, regulation 40 and Schedule 3.