C2PART VISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS
Issue of Postal Ballot Papers
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There shall be issued an envelope for the return of the postal ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers and the F2postal voting statement (referred to as a “covering envelope”) which shall be marked with the letter “B”.
3
There shall also be issued a smaller envelope (referred to as a “ballot paper envelope”) which shall be marked with-
a
the letter “A”;
b
the words “ballot paper envelope”, and
c
F1unless the envelope has a window through which the number on the ballot paper (or ballot papers) can be displayed, the number of the ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers.
4
Where polls are taken together (under the provisions referred to in regulation 65 above) but not the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers—
a
the envelope referred to in paragraph (2) above shall also be marked “Covering envelope for the [insert colour of ballot paper] coloured ballot paper”, and
b
on the envelope referred to in paragraph (3) above, after the words “Ballot paper envelope” there shall be added the words “for the [insert colour of ballot paper] coloured ballot paper”.
Pt. 5 applied (with modifications) (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), s. 19(2), Sch. 5 para. 53