PART IVCOUNTING OF VOTES AND DECLARATION OF RESULT

Retention of documents53

The registration officer must retain for one year all—

a

documents; and

b

electronic copies of information made under regulation 50(1),

relating to an election forwarded to such officer in pursuance of these Regulations by a returning officer, and at the expiry of that period must, unless otherwise directed by an order of a sheriff principal, cause them to be destroyed.