[F1Opening of postal voters’ ballot boxE+W+S
59.—(1) Each postal voters’ ballot box must be opened by the local returning officer in the presence of the agents, if in attendance.
(2) So long as the local returning officer ensures that there is at least one sealed postal voters’ ballot box for the reception of covering envelopes up to the time of the close of the poll, the other postal voters’ ballot boxes may previously be opened by him.
(3) The last postal voters’ ballot box and the postal ballot box must be opened at the verification of the ballot paper accounts under rule 51 of the European Parliamentary elections rules.]
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