C1C6C7PART VISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

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Receipt of Postal Ballot Papers

Alternative means of returning postal ballot paper or F3postal voting statementI1C2C579

1

For the purposes of rule 45(1B) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act47 the manner in which a postal ballot paper or F3postal voting statement may be returned to a polling station is by hand.

2

For these purposes, the manner in which such a paper or F2statement may be returned to the returning officer is by post or by hand.

F52A

For elections other than local government elections in Wales, subject to paragraphs (2B) and (4) the presiding officer of the polling station must deliver, or cause to be delivered—

a

any postal ballot paper or postal voting statement, and

b

any return of postal voting documents form,

returned to that station to the returning officer in the same manner and at the same time as the presiding officer delivers, or causes to be delivered, the packets referred to in rule 43(1) of the elections rules.

2B

A postal ballot paper or postal voting statement may only be delivered to the returning officer in accordance with paragraph (2A) if the requirements of regulation 79A are met and the paper and statement are not rejected in accordance with regulation 79B or 79D.

C4C33

F6For local government elections in Wales,F4subject to paragraph (4) the presiding officer of the polling station shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, any postal ballot paper or F3postal voting statement returned to that station to the returning officer in the same manner and at the same time as he delivers, or causes to be delivered, the packets referred to in rule 43(1) of the elections rules.

C4C3F14

The returning officer may collect, or cause to be collected, any postal ballot paper or F3postal voting statementF7or return of postal voting documents form which by virtue of paragraph F8(2A) or (3) the presiding officer of a polling station would otherwise be required to deliver or cause to be delivered to him.

F94A

For elections other than local government elections in Wales, where the returning officer collects, or causes to be collected, any postal ballot paper or postal voting statement or return of postal voting documents form in accordance with paragraph (4) the presiding officer must first make up into separate packets sealed with the presiding officer’s own seal and the seals of such polling agents as are present and desire to affix their seals with a description of its contents written on each packet—

a

the postal ballot papers and postal voting statements; and

b

the return of postal voting documents forms for those postal ballot papers and postal voting statements.

C4C35

F10For local government elections in Wales, where the returning officer collects, or causes to be collected, any postal ballot paper or F3postal voting statement in accordance with paragraph (4) the presiding officer shall first make it (or them) up into a packet (or packets) sealed with his own seal and the seals of such polling agents as are present and desire to affix their seals.