Representation of the People Act 2000

[F1Notification of rejected postal voteE+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 4 paras. 7E, 7F and cross-headings inserted (2.4.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), ss. 22(1), 27(1); S.I. 2013/702, art. 3(d)

7E(1)Regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which, following the close of the poll at a parliamentary or local government election, a registration officer must—E+W+S

(a)notify a person that the person's postal ballot paper has been rejected, and

(b)where such notification is required to be given to a person appointed as proxy to vote for another (“the elector”) in respect of a proxy postal ballot paper, notify the elector that the ballot paper has been rejected.

(2)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a postal ballot paper is “rejected” if it was not taken to have been duly returned in accordance with the appropriate rules because the returned postal voting statement was not duly completed.

(3)Regulations under this paragraph may include provision as to—

(a)the information to be notified (which may include information as to the respect in which the postal voting statement was not duly completed);

(b)the time within which the notification is to be given;

(c)the way in which it is to be given.]