28.—(1) The returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to electors and their proxies an official poll card, but a card need not be sent to any person—
(a)as an elector if he is placed on the absent voters list for the election; or
(b)as a proxy if he is entitled to vote by post as proxy at the election,
and a card shall not be sent to any person registered, or to be registered, in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration.
(2) An elector’s official poll card shall be sent or delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.
(3) The official poll card shall be in the form in the appendix and shall set out—
(a)the name of the electoral region;
(b)the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register;
(c)the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the elector’s polling station.
(4) In this rule, “elector” has the same meaning as in regulation 58(4) of these Regulations; and, pending publication of the register, the elector’s number in the register includes his number (if any) in the electors list for that register.