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Regulation 6

of Presidential Elections (Special Polling Arrangements for Nursing Homes) Regulations 2023

Regulation 6

Supplementary list of nursing home electors

Subregulation 1

This regulation applies if the Returning Officer is informed by the operator of a nursing home where a special polling station is established that one or more electors have become in‑patients or residents of the nursing home during the period —

(a)

starting the day on which the principal list of nursing home electors for that special polling station is certified under regulation 5(3); and (b)ending 2 days before polling day.

Subregulation 2

The Returning Officer must allot those electors to the special polling station.

Subregulation 3

A supplementary list of nursing home electors for the special polling station must be prepared, stating the number, name and description of every elector allotted under paragraph (2).

Subregulation 4

The numbers, names and descriptions of those electors must be —

(a)

extracted from the certified registers of electors for all electoral divisions; and

(b)

matched with the names of those in‑patients or residents provided by the operator of the nursing home under paragraph (1).

Subregulation 5

A supplementary list of nursing home electors must be certified as accurate by the Registration Officer on or before the eve of polling day.