SCHEDULE 1APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983

PART 2APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS

Saving for employees to be absent for voting

34.

Section 117(2) of the 1983 Act applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if—

(a)

for “parliamentary electors or their proxies” there were substituted “persons entitled to vote (on their own behalf or as proxies)”,

(b)

the words “at a parliamentary election” were omitted, and

(c)

in paragraphs (b) and (c), for “any particular candidate at the election” there were substituted “a particular answer in the referendum”.