PART IIIISSUE AND RECEIPT OF BALLOT PAPERS
Order for issuing ballot papers29
1
The returning officer shall first issue ballot papers to those electors included as voting by post in the absent voters list for the election and shall place a mark in that list and in the register of electors against the number of the elector (which he or she shall also mark with the letter “A”) to denote that–
a
the elector is an absent voter; and
b
a ballot paper has been issued to that elector but without showing the particular ballot paper issued.
2
The returning officer shall secondly issue ballot papers to every elector in the register of electors against whose number no mark has been placed and shall then place a mark against the number of that elector to denote that a ballot paper has been issued but without showing the particular ballot paper issued.