Crown servants and British Council employee service voters

Crown servants and British Council employees abroad and their spouse or civil partner accompanying them can be registered at any time as service voters1 – although they may choose in certain circumstances to make a registration application as an ordinary elector instead. 

A Crown Servant is a person employed in the service of the Crown in a post outside the UK. They are required to devote the whole of their working time to the duties of that post, and their remuneration is paid wholly out of money provided by Parliament.2

However, spouses and civil partners who are themselves in the UK do not qualify for this type of registration.3  

A person who is under 18 years old and living with a parent or guardian who is a Crown servant or British Council employee serving abroad is also eligible to register as service voter provided they would be living in Wales if their parent or guardian were not based overseas.4