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Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001
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Opening of covering envelopesS
84.—[F1(1) When a postal voters' ballot box is opened, the returning officer shall count and record the number of covering envelopes (including any envelope which is stated to include a postal vote and any envelope described in regulation 82(2)).
(1A) He shall set aside for personal identifier verification not less than 20 per cent of the envelopes recorded on that occasion.
(1B) He shall open separately each covering envelope (including an envelope described in regulation 82(2)).]
(2) [F2The procedure in regulation 85 or, as the case may be, regulation 85A applies] where a covering envelope (including an envelope to which regulation 82(2) above applies) contains both–
(a)a [F3postal voting statement]; and
(b)a ballot paper envelope, or if there is no ballot paper envelope, a ballot paper (or ballot papers).
(3) Where the covering envelope does not contain the [F3postal voting statement] separately, the returning officer shall open the ballot paper envelope to ascertain whether the [F3postal voting statement] is inside.
(4) Where a covering envelope does not contain both–
(a)a [F3postal voting statement] (whether separately or not), and
(b)a ballot paper envelope or, if there is no ballot paper envelope, a ballot paper (or ballot papers),
the returning officer shall mark the covering envelope “provisionally rejected”, attach its contents (if any) and place it in the receptacle for rejected votes.
[F4(4A) Where–
(a)an envelope contains the postal voting statement of an elector with an anonymous entry, and
(b)paragraph (4) does not apply,
the returning officer shall set aside that envelope and its contents for personal identifier verification in accordance with regulation 85A.]
[F5(5) In carrying out the procedures in this regulation and regulations 85 to 88, the returning officer–
(a)shall keep the ballot papers face downwards and shall take proper precautions for preventing any person from seeing the votes made on the ballot papers; and
(b)shall not be permitted to view the corresponding number list used at the issue of postal ballot papers.
(6) Where an envelope [F6opened in accordance with paragraph (1B)] contains a postal voting statement, the returning officer shall place a mark in the marked copy of the postal voters list or proxy postal voters list in a place corresponding to the number of the elector to denote that a postal vote has been returned.
(7) A mark made under paragraph (6) shall be distinguishable from and shall not obscure the mark made under regulation 72(3).
(8) As soon as practicable after the last covering envelope has been opened, the returning officer shall make up into a packet the copy of the postal voters list and proxy postal voters list that have been marked in accordance with paragraph (6) and shall seal such a packet.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 84(1)-(1B) substituted for reg. 84(1) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305), regs. 1(1), 8(2)
F2Words in reg. 84(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305), regs. 1(1), 8(3)
F3Words 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)
F4Reg. 84(4A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305), regs. 1(1), 8(4)
F5Reg. 84(5)-(8) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 39
F6Words in reg. 84(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/305), regs. 1(1), 8(5)
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I1Reg. 84 in force at 16.2.2001, see reg. 1(1)
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