The ballot paper at a regional election
24.—(1) At a regional election, the ballot of every voter shall consist of a ballot paper.
(2) The following, namely—
(a)persons shown in the statement of persons nominated as standing nominated (whether as individual or party list candidates), and no others, shall be entitled to have their names, and
(b)the registered political parties which have submitted a party list shown in the statement of persons nominated, and no others, shall be entitled to have their descriptions referred to in paragraph 7(2),
inserted in the ballot paper.
(3) Every ballot paper shall be in the form in the Appendix, and shall be printed in accordance with the directions in that Appendix, and—
(a)shall contain the names and descriptions of the individual candidates shown in the statement of persons nominated,
(b)shall contain the descriptions of the registered political parties referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) together with the names of the candidates included on those parties' lists,
(c)shall be capable of being folded up,
(d)shall have a number printed on the back (together with a mark or other distinguishing feature by which the Assembly constituency can be identified in which the vote is to be given in relation to the ballot paper), and
(e)shall have attached a counterfoil with the same number printed on it.
(4) The order—
(a)of names of the individual candidates, and
(b)of the descriptions referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) (together with, in respect of each such description of a registered political party, the names of the party list candidates),
in the ballot paper shall be the same order as in the statement of persons nominated.
(5) If a certificate received by the regional returning officer under paragraph 8(1) has requested that the registered political party’s registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems) is to be shown on the ballot paper against the party’s description, the ballot paper shall contain that emblem in that way.