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EnactedRoyal Assentc. 27

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Act 2025

Bill 3785Commons originatingintroduced 16 Oct 2024
This bill became lawView the statute on acthub →c. 27 · 27 Oct 2025

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Amendments 4

Committee stage — Commons 4

NoDecisionClause 4DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Clause 4, page 6, leave out lines 22 to 26

Moved: Tracy Gilbert#10021797
NoDecisionClause 1EditBillBody

Clause 1, page 2, line 12, at end insert— <span class="sub-para subparagraph sub-para-indented"><span class="sub-para-num">(4A)</span><span class="sub-para-text">Regulations under this paragraph may, in connection with provision under sub-paragraph (1), include transitional provision under section 201(3) which makes provision for, or in connection with, the expiry of some or all devolved election proxy appointments.”</span></span>

Moved: Tracy Gilbert#10021798
NoDecisionClause 4DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Clause 4, page 6, line 8, leave out from “entitlements” to the end of line 9

Moved: Tracy Gilbert#10021799
NoDecisionClause 1EditBillBody

Clause 1, page 2, line 15, at end insert— ““devolved election proxy appointment” means the appointment of a person as a proxy to vote for another person at local government elections in Wales or Scotland, where the appointment was made before a date specified in the regulations on an application under paragraph 6(7) of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000;”

Moved: Tracy Gilbert#10021800