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Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall	Stella Creasy	Sir Peter Soulsby
Stephen Twigg	Kate Green

26

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  26,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall	Stella Creasy	Sir Peter Soulsby
Stephen Twigg	Kate Green

27

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  27,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall	Stella Creasy	Sir Peter Soulsby
Stephen Twigg	Kate Green

28

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  32,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

46

Schedule  2,  page  57,  line  15,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall Stella Creasy Sir Peter Soulsby
Stephen Twigg	Kate Green

97

Schedule  2,  page  57,  line  15,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

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Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

47

Schedule  2,  page  57,  line  18,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question

1 you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

48

Schedule  2,  page  58,  line  32,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall Stella Creasy Sir Peter Soulsby
Stephen Twigg	Kate Green

98

Schedule  2,  page  58,  line  32,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

49

Schedule  2,  page  59,  line  2,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question 1

you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

50

Schedule  2,  page  60,  line  6,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question 1

you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

51

Schedule  2,  page  60,  line  7,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

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Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

99

Schedule  2,  page  60,  line  7,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

52

Schedule  2,  page  63,  line  15,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question

1 you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

53

Schedule  2,  page  63,  line  17,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

100

Schedule  2,  page  63,  line  17,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

54

Schedule  2,  page  67,  line  5,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question 1

you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

55

Schedule  2,  page  67,  line  9,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

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Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

101

Schedule  2,  page  67,  line  9,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

56

Schedule  2,  page  73,  line  5,  leave out ‘you are voting for’ and insert ‘to question 1

you are voting for, and indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mark Lazarowicz

57

Schedule  2,  page  73,  line  7,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to question 1, and

indicate your preferences in relation to question 2’.

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Tom Greatrex

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

102

Schedule  2,  page  73,  line  7,  after ‘only’, insert ‘in relation to each question’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

173

Schedule  3,  page  76,  line  14,  leave out sub-paragraph (9).

The Deputy Prime Minister

174

Schedule  3,  page  77,  line  47,  at end insert—

‘(9)	The record kept under sub-paragraph (8) must be retained by the registration

officer for the period of twelve months beginning with the date of the poll for

the referendum.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

175

Schedule  3,  page  83,  line  12,  at end insert—

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‘(11)

The record kept under sub-paragraph (10) must be retained by the registration

officer for the period of twelve months beginning with the date of the poll for

referendum.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

176

Schedule  3,  page  83,  line  28,  leave out ‘(subject to any conditions prescribed by the

relevant regulations)’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

177

Schedule  3,  page  85,  line  18,  leave out sub-paragraph (8).

The Deputy Prime Minister

178

Schedule  4,  page  93,  line  28,  leave out ‘(subject to sub-paragraph (4)(b))’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

179

Schedule  4,  page  93,  line  32,  leave out sub-paragraphs (4) and (5).

The Deputy Prime Minister

180

Schedule  4,  page  94,  leave out lines 7 to 27.

The Deputy Prime Minister

181

Schedule  4,  page  94,  line  38,  leave out ‘for “this Part” substitute’ and insert ‘after

“this Part” insert’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

182

Schedule  4,  page  100,  leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—

‘In subsection (4), for the words after “whatever means”

substitute—

“and the reference to a forecast as to the result of

the referendum includes a reference to a forecast

as to the number or proportion of votes expected

to be cast for each answer to the referendum

question in any region, voting area or other

area.”’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

183

Schedule  4,  page  100,  line  17,  leave out ‘1(5)’ and insert ‘1B’.

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The Deputy Prime Minister

184

Schedule  4,  page  104,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘In subsection (7)—

(a)	for “returning officer at a parliamentary election

or a local government election” substitute

“counting officer”;

(b)	for “the election” substitute “the referendum”.

In subsection (9), for “returning officer” substitute

“counting officer”.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

185

Schedule  4,  page  104,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘1A(1)

In relation to England and Wales, section 13B of the 1983 Act has effect for

the purposes of the referendum as if a reference to an election to which that

section applies included a reference to the referendum.

(2)	In relation to Northern Ireland, section 13BA of the 1983 Act has effect for the

purposes of the referendum as if—

(a)	a reference to an election to which that section applies included a

reference to the referendum,

(b)	a reference to the final nomination day included a reference to the

eleventh day before the date of the poll for the referendum,

(c)	a reference in subsection (4) to an election included a reference to the

referendum, and

(d)	subsection (4)(b) referred also to the postal voters list or list of proxies

kept for the referendum under paragraph 16(2) or (3) of Schedule 3.

(3)	A reference in any enactment to section 13B or 13BA of the 1983 Act includes

(where the context allows) a reference to that section as modified by this

paragraph.

(4)	Sub-paragraph (3) has effect, in relation to any register, until the first

publication after the referendum of a revised version of the register under

section 13 of the 1983 Act.

1B	In sections 173 and 173A of the 1983 Act (which relate to incapacities where

a person has been convicted of a corrupt or illegal practice) a reference to a

person convicted of a corrupt or illegal practice includes a reference to a person

convicted of such a practice under a provision of the 1983 Act applied by

paragraph 1.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

186

Schedule  4,  page  105,  line  12,  leave out ‘(subject to sub-paragraph (4)(c), (d), (e)

and (g))’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

187

Schedule  4,  page  105,  line  16,  leave out sub-paragraph (4).

The Deputy Prime Minister

188

Schedule  4,  page  113,  leave out lines 12 to 24 and insert—

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‘“(1)

In this regulation “personal identifiers

record” means a record kept by a

registration officer in pursuance of—

(a)	paragraph 3(9) or 7(12) of

Schedule 4 to the

Representation of the People

Act 2000 in relation to persons

entitled to vote in the

referendum,

(b)	paragraph 3(9) or 7(13) of

Schedule 2 to the European

Parliamentary Elections

Regulations 2004 in relation to

peers entitled to vote in the

referendum, or

(c)	paragraph 4(8) or 8(10) of

Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary

Voting System and

Constituencies Act 2010.”

In paragraph (3), for sub-paragraph (a)

substitute—

“(a)	any agent attending proceedings

on receipt of postal ballot

papers, in accordance with

regulation 85A(4) or

85B(3)(a).”’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

189

Schedule  4,  page  116,  line  27,  leave out ‘38’ and insert ‘39’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

190

Schedule  4,  page  116,  line  37,  leave out ‘37(1)’ and insert ‘37(4)’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

191

Schedule  4,  page  117,  line  9,  leave out ‘48’ and insert ‘49’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

192

Schedule  4,  page  124,  line  17,  leave out ‘(subject to sub-paragraph (4)(b))’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

193

Schedule  4,  page  124,  line  21,  leave out sub-paragraph (4).

The Deputy Prime Minister

194

Schedule  4,  page  128,  line  43,  at end insert—

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Revised 11 October 2010