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PART VSISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

Issue of postal ballot papersS

Time when postal ballot papers are to be issuedS

71.—(1) In the case of a person shown in the record kept under–

(a)paragraph 3(4), or

(b)paragraph 7(6),

of Schedule 4 to the 2000 Act (electors and proxies entitled to vote by post for an indefinite or particular period), no postal ballot paper (and [F1postal voting statement]) shall be issued until after 5 p.m. on the eleventh day before the date of the poll (computed in accordance with regulation 56(6) above).

(2) In the case of any other person, the postal ballot paper (and [F1postal voting statement]) shall be issued by the returning officer as soon as practicable after [F2the application to vote by post has been granted.]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Regulations substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 54(a)

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 71 in force at 16.2.2001, see reg. 1(1)