The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

Forwarding of documents

102.  Regulation 91 of the 2008 Regulations (forwarding of documents)(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if—

(a) for “returning officer” (in each place) there were substituted “counting officer”,

(b) the following were treated as substituted for paragraph (1)—

“(1) The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall retain together with the documents mentioned in regulation 56 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016—

(a) any packets referred to in regulation 79, 81(5), 81A(11) and 89, endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the referendum and the name of the voting area,

(b) the list of spoilt ballot papers and the list of tendered ballot papers, and

(c) a completed statement in Form N.”,

(c) in paragraph (2), for the words from “and endorse” to the end there were substituted “, endorse the packet as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) and retain the packet”,

(d) the following were treated as substituted for paragraph (3)—

“(3) Regulations 57 and 58 of the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 shall apply to any packet or document retained under this regulation.”, and

(e) in paragraph (4) for “(1)(b)” there were substituted “(1)(c)”.

(1)

Regulation 91 was amended by regulation 29 of S.I. 2014/1808.