The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

PART 4 APPLICATION AND AMENDMENT OF EXISTING LEGISLATION

Application of provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1983

79.  Schedule 1 makes provision about the application of provisions of the 1983 Act for the purposes of the referendum.

Application of provisions of other Acts

80.  Schedule 2 makes provision about the application of Acts (other than the 1983 Act) for the purposes of the referendum.

Application of existing provisions of regulations

81.  Schedule 3 makes provision about the application of existing provisions of regulations for the purposes of the referendum.

Amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

82.  Schedule 4 to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004 (Entitlement to Registration and Legal Incapacity to Vote in Gibraltar)(1) is amended as follows:

(a) The existing words of paragraph 6(2) become sub-paragraph (1).

(b) After that sub-paragraph insert—

“(2) Where—

(a) on the date this sub-paragraph comes into force, a person is registered under the law of Gibraltar as an elector for elections to the Gibraltar Parliament in respect of an address, and

(b) that person is not for the time being registered in the register in respect of that address,

that person is to be treated as having made, on the date this sub-paragraph comes into force, an application for registration in the register in respect of that address.”

(1)

S.I. 2004/293.

(2)

Paragraph 6 was amended by regulation 42 of S.I. 2009/186.