§ AMENDMENT AND MODIFICATION OF ELECTION LAW
§ Mr. CarlisleI beg to move Amendment No. 968, in page 229, line 10, leave out from 'proxy)' to end of line 14 and insert:
'an address shall not be treated as in the same area as a qualifying address unless—
- (a) both addresses are in the same electoral division of Greater London, or
- (b) both addresses are in the same electoral division of a county in England and, if either address is in a parish, both are in the same parish, or
- (c) both addresses are in the same electoral division of a county in Wales and in the same community'.
Mr. Deputy SpeakerWith this Amendment it will be convenient to take Government Amendments Nos. 727 and 728.
§ Mr. CarlisleThese Amendments, which concern postal voting at parliamentary elections, are designed to translate as nearly as possible into the new local government terms the existing entitlement to a postal vote on moving house at a parliamentary election. The effect of the Amendments will be to allow a postal vote if a person moves out of one county electoral division to another. Such a person will also be entitled to a postal vote if he moves within the same division either from one parish to another or into or out of a particular parish.
§ Amendment agreed to.