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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Control of documents after parliamentary election: Northern Ireland

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Control of documents after parliamentary election: Northern IrelandN.I.

95(1)Schedule 1 (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.N.I.

(2)In rule 55 (delivery of documents after poll) after paragraph (1A) (inserted by section 41(3)(b)) insert—

(1B)Paragraph (1)(e) does not apply to an election for a constituency in Northern Ireland, but the returning officer shall endorse on each packet containing—

(a)marked copies of the registers,

(b)the postal voters list,

(c)the proxy postal voters list, and

(d)lists of proxies,

a description of its contents, the date of the election to which it relates and the name of the constituency for which the election was held.

(3)In rule 57 (retention and public inspection of documents) after paragraph (1) insert—

(1A)The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall retain for a year the documents mentioned in rule 55(1B), and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the House of Commons or the High Court, shall cause them to be destroyed.

(4)This paragraph extends only to Northern Ireland.

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