(1) The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 1 (European Parliamentary elections rules) , rule 53(3) (the count), for “them” substitute “the numbers or other unique identifying marks printed on the back of the papers”.
(3) In Schedule 2 (absent voting) —
(a) in paragraph 36(7) (requiring personal identifiers from existing absent voters), for “an elections” substitute “an election”;
(b) in paragraph 39(1)(a) (consequences of failure or refusal to provide personal identifiers), for “voting records” substitute “absent voting records”;
(c) in paragraph 54(10) (lost postal ballot papers), for “regulation 52” substitute “paragraph 52”; and
(d) in paragraph 70(1) (forwarding of documents), for “those rules” substitute “the European Parliamentary elections rules”.