Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001

[F1Postal voting documents left behind at a polling stationS

79D.(1) Where a person leaves a left behind postal voting document at a polling station, the relevant officer must reject that left behind postal voting document.

(2) The relevant officer must—

(a)write on a return of postal voting documents form to confirm that the postal voting document is a left behind postal voting document,

(b)write the relevant officer’s name on that form, and

(c)attach that form to the left behind postal voting document.

(3) Left behind postal voting documents and the attached return of postal voting documents forms must be included in the packet of rejected postal voting documents and forms made up in accordance with regulation 79C(2).]

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