50.—(1) Regulation 91A of the Scotland Regulations (forwarding of documents)(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but with the following modifications.
(2) For those purposes the following paragraph is to be treated as substituted for paragraph (1)—
“(1) Before the counting officer seals up the counted and rejected ballot papers as provided by regulation 55 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016, the counting officer must send a copy of any list compiled under regulation 87(4) to the registration officer for the local government area for which the counting officer is appointed.”
(3) Paragraph (2) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if the words from “and requiring” to the end were omitted.
(4) Paragraph (3) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)for “Rule 56 of the elections rules, as modified by rule 58 of those rules,” there were substituted “Regulation 57 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”,
(b)the words “, or extracts of the list,” were omitted,
(c)for “returning officer” (in both places) there were substituted “counting officer”,
(d)in sub-paragraph (a)—
(i)for “rule 56” there were substituted “regulation 57”, and
(ii)the words “, or extracts of the list,” were omitted, and
(e)in sub-paragraph (b)—
(i)the words “(as modified by rule 58 of the elections rules)” were omitted, and
(ii)the words “, or extracts of a list,” were omitted.
(5) Paragraph (4) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if the words “, or extracts of the list,” were omitted.
(6) Paragraph (5) has effect for the purposes of the referendum as if—
(a)the words “, or extracts of the list,” (in both places) were omitted, and
(b)the words “, and issued any notices under regulation 60B,” were omitted.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 50 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1
Regulation 91A was inserted by regulation 38 of S.I. 2013/3206.