The Regional Assembly and Local Government Referendums Order 2004

Votes marked by presiding officer

27.—(1) The presiding officer at an assistance and delivery point, on the application of a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in manner directed by these Rules or who declares orally that he is unable to read, shall (as far as necessary)—

(a) cause the voter’s vote to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter;

(b) cause the voter’s security statement to be signed on the voter’s behalf; and

(c) cause the ballot paper and the voter’s security statement to be placed in the appropriate envelopes and placed in the delivery point ballot box.

(2) Before providing the assistance mentioned in paragraph (1) the presiding officer shall be satisfied as to the voter’s identity.

(3) The name and address of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list (in these Rules referred to as “the list of votes marked by the presiding officer”).

(4) Where there are combined polls the same list may be used, and where it is used an entry in that list shall be taken to mean that votes were so marked in respect of both of the referendums, unless the list identifies the referendum at which a ballot paper was so marked.

(5) In the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the name of the elector and the name and address of the person voting as proxy, shall be entered on the list.