Representation of the People Act 2000

It removed most restrictions on postal voting and proxy voting.
It allows psychiatric hospitals to be used as a registration address.
It requires additional assistance for disabled voters, particularly visually impaired voters.
It made provision for new regulations governing the access, sale and supply of electoral registers.

Subsequent amendments

Six years after the act, the Department for Constitutional Affairs introduced the Bill that became the Electoral Administration Act 2006 which made alterations to UK electoral processes.