9 Assistance with voting for persons with disabilities
Elections Act 2022 (2022 c 37) | Legislation

Assistance with voting for persons with disabilities

9  Assistance with voting for persons with disabilities

(1)     Schedule 1 to RPA 1983 (Parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.

(2)     In rule 29 (equipment of polling stations)—

(a)     in paragraph (3A), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)     such equipment as it is reasonable to provide for the purposes of enabling, or making it easier for, relevant persons to vote independently in the manner directed by rule 37 (including in relation to voting secretly).”;

(b)     after paragraph (3A) insert—

“(3B)     In this rule, “relevant

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