Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006

Entry of names in postal voters list.

2.— (1) The registration authority shall enter in the postal voters list the name of every elector who—

(a) not later than the last date for making claims for corrections in the draft register applies to be so entered,

(b) satisfies the registration authority that the circumstances of the elector’s detention in prison, pursuant to an order of a court, are such as to render it likely that he or she will be unable to go in person on polling day to vote at the polling place for the polling district, and

(c) satisfies the registration authority that he or she was ordinarily resident in the State prior to his or her detention in prison.

(2) For the purposes of—

(a) determining in which of the postal voters lists (for the various constituencies in the State) his or her name shall be entered, and

(b) otherwise for the purposes of this section (other than subsection (1)(c)),

a person to whom this section applies shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident in the place where he or she would have been residing but for his or her detention in prison.