Additional steps: verification and count carried out at different placesU.K.
40.—(1) Rule 50 is modified as follows.
(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) This rule applies where—
(a)the local returning officer is the relevant returning or counting officer, and
(b)the votes at the PCC election are to be counted at a place other than that at which the procedures for the verification of the ballot paper accounts are carried out.”
(3) In paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) (in each place), for “local returning officer” substitute “ relevant returning or counting officer ”.