Amendments to the 2004 Regulations4
1
Schedule 2 to the 2004 Regulations (absent voting) is amended as follows.
2
In paragraphs 26(6A) (closing date for applications), 31A(1)(a) (notification of rejected postal voting statement) and 67(4)(d) (lists of rejected postal ballot papers)7 for “returning officer” substitute “local returning officer”.
3
In paragraph 54A (cancellation of postal ballot papers)8, after sub-paragraph (4) insert—
5
Rule 2 of Schedule 1 applies to the computation of the period of nineteen days for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) as it applies to the computation of a period for the purposes of rule 1 of that Schedule.