http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2837/schedule/2/paragraph/21/madeThe National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Referendum Question, Date of Referendum Etc.) Order 2010enKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2016-09-06CONSTITUTIONAL LAWDEVOLUTION, WALESREFERENDUMSREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE Section 103 of and Schedule 6 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) (“the 2006 Act”) empowers Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to provide for the holding of a referendum throughout Wales about whether the Assembly Act provisions in the 2006 Act should come into force. The Assembly Act provisions are sections 107, 108 and 110 -115 of the 2006 Act. Those sections will be brought into force, by Order made by the Welsh Ministers, if a majority of voters in the referendum vote “yes” to the referendum question. The Assembly Act provisions provide for the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales to be defined by reference to Schedule 7 of the 2006 Act (rather than by Schedule 5 as currently) and for the Assembly to make laws, that can make any provision that an Act of Parliament can make provided they are within that competence. These laws will be known as Acts of the National Assembly for Wales (or Assembly Acts). SCHEDULE 2 ISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS PART 3Receipt of Postal Ballot PapersPostal voting statements: additional personal identifier verification 21 1 The counting officer may on any occasion at which a postal voters’ ballot box is opened in accordance with paragraph 16 undertake verification of the personal identifiers on any postal voting statement that has on a prior occasion been placed in the receptacle for postal voting statements. 2 Where the counting officer undertakes additional verification of personal identifiers, the counting officer must— a remove as many postal voting statements from the receptacle for postal voting statements as the counting officer wishes to subject to additional verification; and b compare the date of birth and the signature on each such postal voting statement against the date of birth and signature contained in the relevant personal identifiers record relating to the person to whom the postal ballot paper was addressed. 3 Where the counting officer is no longer satisfied that the postal voting statement has been duly completed the counting officer must mark the statement “rejected”, and before placing the postal voting statement in the receptacle for rejected votes (verification procedure) the counting officer must— a show it to the agents and must permit them to view the entries in the relevant personal identifiers record which relate to the person to whom the postal ballot paper was addressed, and if any of them object to the counting officer’s decision, the counting officer must add the words “rejection objected to”; b open any postal ballot box and retrieve the ballot paper corresponding to the ballot paper on the postal voting statement; c show the ballot paper number on the retrieved ballot paper to the agents; and d attach the ballot paper to the postal voting statement. 4 Following the removal of a postal ballot paper from a postal ballot box the counting officer must reseal the postal ballot box in the presence of the agents.
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