C1C6C7PART VISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

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Receipt of Postal Ballot Papers

F1Retrieval of cancelled postal ballot papersC3C2C4C586A

1

Where it appears to the returning officer that a cancelled postal ballot paper has been placed—

a

in a postal voters’ ballot box;

b

in the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes; or

c

a postal ballot box,

he shall proceed as follows.

2

He shall, on at least one occasion on which a postal voters ballot box is opened in accordance with regulation 83, also open any postal ballot box and the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes and—

a

retrieve the cancelled ballot paper;

b

show the ballot paper number on the cancelled ballot paper to the agents;

c

retrieve the postal voting statement that relates to a cancelled ballot paper from the receptacle for postal voting statements F2(verification procedure);

d

attach any cancelled postal ballot paper to the postal voting statement to which it relates;

e

place the cancelled documents in a separate packet and deal with that packet in the manner provided for by regulation 77(6) F3or 78A(2); and

f

unless the postal ballot box has been opened for the purposes of the counting of votes under rule 45 of the elections rules, re-lock (if it has a lock) and re-seal the postal ballot box in the presence of the agents.

3

Whilst retrieving a cancelled ballot paper in accordance with paragraph (2), the returning officer and his staff—

a

shall keep the ballot papers face downwards and shall take proper precautions for preventing any person seeing the votes made on the ballot papers, and

b

shall not be permitted to view the corresponding number list used at the issue of postal ballot papers.