Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution
(2006)

• Section 28, subsection (1) states, “No person shall be qualified to be elected as an Elected Member of the Parliament who...(e) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Gibraltar.”

Electoral Act
Parliament Act
(1950, last amended 2007)

• Section 3, subsection (1), paragraph 2 states, “Provided that a person shall not be entitled to vote as an elector unless registered in the register of electors to be used at the election, and that no person shall be entitled to vote or to be registered as an elector if...(c) he is certified to be suffering from mental disorder under any law in force in Gibraltar.”

European Parliamentary Elections
(2004, last amended 2009)

• Section 9, subsection (3) states, “A canvass [for voter registration] shall not be concerned with - (a) the registration of persons resident in penal institutions or mental hospitals.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Elections Rules
(1950, last amended 2007)

• Section 24 states, “The presiding officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted to the polling station at the time and shall exclude all other persons except...(e) the companions of blind voters.”
• Section 31 states, “(1) The presiding officer, on application of - (a) a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in manner directed by these rules; or (b) if the poll is taken on a Saturday, a voter who declares himself to be  Jew, and objects on religious grounds to voting in manner directed by these rules; or (c) a voter who declares orally that he is unable to read, shall cause the vote of the voter to be marked on a ballot paper in manner directed by the voter and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box. (2) The name and number in the registration of electors of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list...”
• Section 32 details the procedures of voting by blind persons.
• Section 33 details the procedures for absentee voting by incapacitated persons.

• Constitution - http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/constitution/Gibraltar_Constitution_Order_2006.pdf
• Parliament Act - http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/1950-15o.pdf
• Elections Rules - http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/1950.07.20-1.pdf
• European Parliamentary Elections - http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/2004-05o.pdf