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SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

 
 

Tuesday 2 November 2010

 

Report Stage Proceedings

 

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, As Amended


 

[Second Day]


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  18

 

Page  3,  line  1  [Clause  4],  leave out subsection (4) and insert—

 

‘(4)    

The polls for—

 

(a)    

the referendum,

 

(b)    

the general election of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to be

 

held on 5 May 2011, and

 

(c)    

the Northern Ireland local elections to be held on that date,

 

    

are to be taken together.’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  19

 

Page  3  [Clause  4],  leave out lines 31 and 32.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  44

 

Page  212,  [Schedule  7],  leave out lines 10 and 11 and insert—

 

‘“the 2010 Order” means the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order

 

2010;’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  45

 

Page  212,  line  15  [Schedule  7],  leave out from ‘Article’ to ‘Order’ and insert ‘14 of

 

the 2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  46

 

Page  212,  line  32  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

 

Jonathan Edwards

 

Not called  222

 

Page  212,  line  36  [Schedule  7],  leave out from ‘combination’ to end of line 38 and


 
 

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insert ‘is to be the sole responsibility of the United Kingdom Government’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  47

 

Page  212,  line  41  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘19 of the 2007’ and insert ‘18 of the

 

2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  48

 

Page  213,  line  9  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘20 of the 2007’ and insert ‘19 of the

 

2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  49

 

Page  213,  line  19  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  50

 

Page  213,  line  31  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  51

 

Page  214,  line  34  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  52

 

Page  215,  line  5  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  53

 

Page  216,  line  1  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘second sentence of’ and insert

 

‘requirement for separate ballot boxes in’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  54

 

Page  216,  line  33  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘and (12)’.


 
 

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The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  55

 

Page  216,  line  40  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘(13)’ and insert ‘(12)’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  56

 

Page  218,  line  18  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘46(7)’ and insert ‘46(6)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  57

 

Page  218,  line  35  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘46(7)’ and insert ‘46(6)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  58

 

Page  218,  line  38  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  59

 

Page  219,  line  11  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘47(5)’ and insert ‘47(4)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  60

 

Page  219,  line  21  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘48(7)(a)’ and insert ‘48(6)(a)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  61

 

Page  219,  line  35  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘48(9)’ and insert ‘48(8)’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  62

 

Page  220,  line  5  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘49(8)’ and insert ‘49(7)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  63

 

Page  220,  line  7  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘49(12)’ and insert ‘49(10)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  64

 

Page  220,  line  24  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘“constituency returning officer”’ and

 

insert ‘“CRO”’.


 
 

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The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  65

 

Page  220,  line  29  [Schedule  7],  leave out from ‘53(1)’ to first ‘reference’ in line 30

 

and insert ‘and (2) of the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules, a’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  66

 

Page  220,  line  31  [Schedule  7],  leave out from ‘referendum’ to ‘does’ in line 32 and

 

insert—

 

    ‘( )  

Rule 53(2)(g) of those rules’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  67

 

Page  220,  line  37  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘53(1)(a)’ and insert ‘53(2)(a)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  68

 

Page  220,  line  38  [Schedule  7],  leave out paragraph 40 and insert—

 

‘40      

Rule 53(2) of the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules has effect as if

 

“counting officer” were substituted for “CRO” in each place.’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  69

 

Page  221,  line  2  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘53(3)’ and insert ‘53(4)’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  70

 

Page  222,  line  27  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  71

 

Page  222,  line  33  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  72

 

Page  223,  line  8  [Schedule  7],  leave out sub-paragraph (5) and insert—

 

    ‘(5)  

The counting officer must, on request, provide an election agent for the

 

Scottish parliamentary election with a copy of the statement relating to that

 

election.’.

 



 
 

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The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  73

 

Page  224,  line  12  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  74

 

Page  225,  line  16  [Schedule  7],  leave out from ‘the’ to ‘and’ in line 17 and insert

 

‘polling register (within the meaning given in Article 2(1) of the 2010 Order),’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  75

 

Page  225,  line  24  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘69(1)(e), (f) and (h)’ and insert ‘69(1)(c),

 

(d) and (f)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  76

 

Page  225,  line  27  [Schedule  7],  leave out from first ‘the’ to end of line 28 and insert

 

‘CRO were to the counting officer’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  77

 

Page  225,  line  36  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘72’ and insert ‘72(4), 75(2) or 77(1)’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  78

 

Page  226,  line  3  [Schedule  7],  leave out sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) and insert—

 

    ‘(2)  

Rule 78 of the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules has effect as if it were

 

amended in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (3A).

 

      (3)  

In paragraph (2), after “ CRO” insert “or counting officer”.

 

    (3A)  

For paragraph (3) substitute—

 

“(3)    

After the close of any polls that are being taken together with the poll

 

that has been abandoned, the counting officer must—

 

(a)    

separate the ballot papers for the abandoned poll, and

 

(b)    

deliver or cause to be delivered to the CRO the ballot papers

 

and other documents relating to the abandoned poll.

 

(3A)    

Paragraphs (4) to (9) apply in relation to the poll that has been

 

abandoned.”’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  79

 

Page  226,  line  28  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘72(8)’ and insert ‘78(10)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  80

 

Page  226,  line  32  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.)


 
 

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Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/937)’ and insert ‘2010 Order’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  81

 

Page  227,  line  1  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘20A(4) or 20B(3)(a)’ and insert ‘20(4)(b),

 

21(4)(b) or 22(3)(b)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  82

 

Page  227,  line  2  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  83

 

Page  227,  line  4  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘28’ and insert ‘30’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  84

 

Page  227,  line  5  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘2007’ and insert ‘2010’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  85

 

Page  227,  line  9,  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘(9)’ and insert ‘(10)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  86

 

Page  227,  [Schedule  7],  leave out lines 22 to 25.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  87

 

Page  228,  line  8  [Schedule  7],  at end insert—

 

‘“proxy postal voters list” includes the list kept under paragraph 8(6) of

 

Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act

 

2010;”;’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  88

 

Page  228,  line  27  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘“constituency returning officer”’ and

 

insert ‘“CRO”’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  89

 

Page  228,  line  35  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘constituency returning officer’ and insert

 

‘CRO’.


 
 

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The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  90

 

Page  228,  line  40  [Schedule  7],  before ‘In’ insert—

  

‘In sub-paragraph (1)—

 
  

(a)    

for “CRO” substitute “relevant returning or

 
  

counting officer”;

 
  

(b)    

for “CRO’s” substitute “relevant returning or

 
  

counting officer’s”.’.

 
 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  91

 

Page  228,  line  40  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), for

 

“constituency returning officer”’ and insert ‘sub-paragraph (2), for “CRO”’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  92

 

Page  229,  [Schedule  7],  leave out lines 24 and 25 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the CRO and members of the CRO’s staff;’.

 


 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  93

 

Page  230,  line  13  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘“constituency returning officer”’ and

 

insert ‘“CRO”’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  94

 

Page  230,  line  18  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘(8)’ and insert ‘(9)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  95

 

Page  230,  line  18  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘“constituency returning officer”’ and

 

insert ‘“CRO”’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  96

 

Page  230,  line  21  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘(5)’ and insert ‘(6)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  97

 

Page  230,  line  22  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘(8)’ and insert ‘(9)’.

 

The Deputy Prime Minister

 

Agreed to  98

 

Page  230,  line  23  [Schedule  7],  leave out ‘“(8A)’ and insert ‘“(9A)’.


 
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