Clause 7 - Encouraging voting
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
6:30 pm
Mr Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to take the following:
Amendment No. 33, in
Clause 7, page 3, line 38, at end add 'provided that any such thing that the Electoral Commission do shall treat abstention as an act of participation and shall draw attention to the effect of abstention in such a referendum'.
Amendment No. 28, in
Clause 8, page 4, line 13, at end add 'and the significance to the outcome of the referendum of abstention'.