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The Elections (Fresh Signatures for Absent Voters) Regulations 2013
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Modification of the requirement to provide fresh signatures at five yearly intervals
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3.—(1) In the period beginning on 31st July 2013 and ending on 31st December 2015 the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001(1) shall have effect with the following modification.
(2) Regulation 60A (requirement to provide fresh signatures at five yearly intervals) shall have effect as if for paragraph (1) there were substituted—
“(1) Every person who remains an absent voter and whose signature held on the personal identifiers record would be more than five years old on 31st January 2015 must be sent a notice in writing by the registration officer no earlier than 1st August 2013 and no later than 19th August 2013—
(a)requiring the person to provide a fresh signature, and
(b)informing the person of the date (six weeks from the date of sending the notice) on which the person would cease to be entitled to vote by post or by proxy in the event of a failure or refusal to provide a fresh signature.”.
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S.I 2001/497. Regulation 60A was inserted by regulation 5 of the Representation of the People (Scotland)(Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305).
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