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Electoral Registration and Administration Bill
AMENDMENT
TO BE MOVED
IN COMMITTEE
After Clause 17
LORD PANNICK
BARONESS JAY OF PADDINGTON
LORD LEXDEN
LORD LANG OF MONKTON
Insert the following new Clause—
“Voting procedure
(1) Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 37 (voting procedure) after sub-paragraph (6) insert—
“(7) A voter who is in the polling station or in a queue outside the polling station for the purpose of voting at the time specified for the close of the poll shall be entitled to apply for a ballot paper under sub-paragraph 1 above and a ballot paper shall be delivered and the voter entitled to vote in accordance with this paragraph.””