These include:
a requirement that any person appointed as a proxy is themselves registered to vote;
a restriction of the access to emergency proxy votes to electors who require it on grounds of disability, occupation, service or employment, where the grounds have arisen after the cut-off date for a normal proxy application;
checking of 100% of postal vote verification statements; and
that the deadline for non emergency proxy applications is 6 days before the date of the poll (this was 5 days in the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013).