Clause 29 - Voting rights
Mental Capacity Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Paul Burstow (Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Health; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
I listened to the exchange between the Minister and the hon. Member for Daventry and I wanted to ensure that I was clear in my understanding about a question. As a consequence of the clause, would a person who was able to take part in a public election and cast a vote, not be able to avail themselves of the proxy voting arrangements that exist in other legislation? In those circumstances, would they be able to have a proxy vote? Does this exclude the category of person that this measure is trying to deal with from being able to do that? I want to be clear whether proxy votes would still be possible in that context.