Licensing Act 1964

5 (1) Regulations made under section 42 of the Representation of the People Act 1949 may, so far as they relate to voting by proxy or by post or to matters connected therewith, make special provision in connection with polls under section 66 of this Act; but subject to any such provision the regulations shall apply—

(a) with the omission of any passage relating to candidates or their agents or to other matters not relevant to such a poll; and

(b) with the substitution for any reference to the last day for the delivery of nomination papers of a reference to the last day for delivery of requisition papers under section 66 of this Act; and

(c) as if any provision requiring section 53(4) of the Representation of the People Act 1949 to be read to a person making a declaration of secrecy required it to be read with the modification provided for by section 67(5)(i) of this Act;

and any form prescribed by any such regulations in connection with voting by proxy or by post shall be used with such modifications (if any) as may be approved by the Secretary of State as necessary to adapt it for the purposes of a poll under section 66 of this Act.

(2) If the date for the poll is altered after any postal ballot papers have been issued, then—

(a) on any later issue the covering envelopes enclosed for the return of declarations, of identity and ballot papers shall be readily distinguishable from those enclosed on the previous issue (that is to say, the issue before the alteration of the date), and there shall be enclosed a notice calling attention to the change of date and stating that documents sent out on the previous issue are not to be used ;

(b) any covering envelopes of the previous issue sent to the returning officer shall on receipt be dealt with in the same way as covering envelopes of later issues, but, on the opening of the ballot boxes provided for covering envelopes, those of the previous issue shall be marked " rejected", shall be set aside unopened, and thereafter shall be dealt with in the same way as other rejected votes ;

(c) save as aforesaid, the previous issue shall be disregarded for all purposes.