[F1Postal voting documents left behind with the returning officerS
82D.—(1) Where a person leaves a left behind postal voting document for the returning officer in accordance with regulation 79(1)(b), the authorised person must reject that left behind postal voting document.
(2) The authorised person 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 authorised person’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 82C(2).]
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 82A-82E inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), reg. 3(8)