SCHEDULE 3APPLICATION OF EXISTING PROVISIONS OF REGULATIONS

PART 1THE 2001 REGULATIONS (ENGLAND AND WALES) AND THE 2001 REGULATIONS (SCOTLAND)

Postal ballot boxes and receptaclesI137

Regulation 81 of the relevant regulations (postal ballot boxes and receptacles)144 applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if—

a

for “returning officer” (in each place) there were substituted “counting officer”,

b

in paragraph (2) for the words from “constituency” to the end there were substituted “voting area”, and

c

in paragraph (4) after “box” there were inserted “(if it has a lock)”.