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71.—(1) An application under regulation 51(1), (6) or (7), or 58(5) must be disregarded for the purposes of a particular petition if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the last day of the signing period.
(2) An application under regulation 51(2) or 57(6) must be disregarded for the purposes of a particular petition if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the sixth day before the last day of the signing period.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), an application under regulation 53(2) or 57(7) must be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the sixth day before the last day of the signing period at the petition for which it is made.
(4) Where an application made under regulation 53(2) is made—
(a)on the grounds of the applicant’s disability and the applicant became disabled after 5 pm on the sixth day before the last day of the signing period at the petition for which it is made;
(b)on grounds relating to the applicant’s occupation, service or employment and the applicant became aware of those grounds after 5pm on the sixth day before the last day of the signing period at the petition for which it is made; or
(c)by a person to whom section 7 of the 1983 Act (mental health patients who are not detained offenders) applies and who is liable, by virtue of any enactment to be detained in the mental hospital in question, whether that person is registered by virtue of that provision or not,
the application, or an application under regulation 57(7) made by virtue of that application, must be refused if it is received on the last day of the signing period less than 5 hours before the end of the period for which the petition is available for signing on that day.
(5) An application under regulation 53(1) or 58(8) must be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the last day of the signing period at the petition for which it is made.
(6) An application under—
(a)regulation 51(5)(a) by an elector to be removed from the record kept under regulation 51(4), or
(b)regulation 58(11)(a) by a proxy to be removed from the record kept under regulation 58(7),
and a notice under regulation 57(9) by an elector cancelling a proxy’s appointment must be disregarded for the purposes of a particular petition if it is received by the registration officer after 5pm on the eleventh day before the last day of the signing period at that petition.
(7) Any application or notice mentioned in this regulation must be disregarded for the purposes of a particular petition if, before the application or notice is considered by the registration officer, the elector or proxy has returned a postal signing sheet to the petition officer (except where it has been returned in accordance with regulation 94 or 96 (spoilt and lost postal signing sheets)).
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I1Reg. 71 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1
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