45Marked postal voters list
(1)Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.
(2)After rule 31 (notification of requirement of secrecy) insert—
“Return of postal ballot papers
31A(1)Where—
(a)a postal vote has been returned in respect of a person who is entered on the postal voters list, or
(b)a proxy postal vote has been returned in respect of a proxy who is entered on the proxy postal voters list,
the returning officer must mark the list in the prescribed manner.
(2)For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a postal vote or a proxy postal vote (as the case may be) is or is not to be treated as having been returned.
(3)Rule 45(1B) and (2) below does not apply for the purpose of determining whether, for the purposes of this rule, a postal vote or a proxy postal vote is returned.”
(3)In rule 55 (delivery of documents after poll)—
(a)in paragraph (1)(e) for “of lists of proxies” substitute “of the postal voters list, of lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list”;
(b)after paragraph (1)(e) insert—
“(f)such other documents relating to elections as are prescribed,”.