Version Superseded: 31/12/2020
Point in time view as at 01/01/2014. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004, Paragraph 58.
58.—(1) The local returning officer must, immediately on receipt (whether by hand or by post) of a covering envelope (or an envelope which is stated to include a postal vote) before the close of the poll, place it unopened in a postal voters’ ballot box.
(2) Where an envelope, other than a covering envelope issued by the local returning officer—
(a)has been opened; and
(b)contains a ballot paper envelope, postal voting statement or ballot paper,
the first-mentioned envelope, together with its contents, must be placed in a postal voters’ ballot box.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 substituted (30.1.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/186), regs. 1(2), 40, Sch. 3
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