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60.—(1) An application under Chapter 1 of this Part must state—
(a)the full name of the applicant;
(b)except in a case within subparagraph (c), the address in respect of which the applicant is registered or has applied to be (or is treated as having applied to be) registered in the registers of electors;
(c)in the case of an application under regulation 58(5) (signing the petition by post as a proxy), the proxy’s address, together with the name of the elector for whom the applicant will act as proxy and the elector’s address for the purposes of subparagraph (b);
(d)in the case of a person applying to sign the petition by post, the address to which the signing sheet should be sent;
(e)in the case of an application to sign the petition by proxy, the grounds on which the applicant claims to be eligible to sign the petition by proxy;
(f)in the case of a person who is unable to provide a signature (or a consistent or distinctive signature), the reasons for requesting the waiver of any requirement under regulation 51, regulation 53 or regulation 58 to provide a signature and the name and address of any person who has assisted in the completion of the application; and
(g)where the applicant has, or has applied for, an anonymous entry, that fact.
(2) The application must be made in writing and must be dated.
(3) Where an application is required to contain a signature and date of birth, the information must be set out in a manner that is sufficiently clear and unambiguous as to be capable of electronic scanning into the record by configuring the information as follows—
(a)the signature must appear against a background of white unlined paper of at least five centimetres long and two centimetres high, and
(b)the applicant’s date of birth must be set out numerically configured in the sequence of date, month and year, namely [d][d][m][m][y][y][y][y].
(4) Paragraph (3)(a) does not apply where the application contains a request that the registration officer waive the requirement for a signature.
(5) An application under regulation 53 (absent signing at a particular petition: England and Wales and Scotland) or regulation 54 (absent signing at a particular petition: Northern Ireland) must—
(a)state that it is made for a particular petition, and
(b)identify the petition in question.
(6) An application to sign the petition by proxy must also include an application for the appointment of a proxy which meets the requirements of regulation 57 (proxies at petitions).
(7) For petitions in Northern Ireland, the following modifications are made to this regulation—
(a)an application under paragraph (1) must also contain—
(i)the signature of the applicant; and
(ii)an address in the United Kingdom to which the applicant’s signing sheet is to be sent, and
(b)paragraphs (1)(f) and (3) do not apply.
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