SCHEDULE 3E+WRules for Conduct of an Election of Councillors of a Parish or Community where the Poll is taken together with the Poll at a relevant Election or Referendum

PART 5 E+WDisposal of Documents

Delivery of documents to relevant registration officerE+W

52.—(1) The returning officer must then forward to the relevant registration officer the following documents—

(a)the packets of ballot papers in his possession,

(b)the ballot paper accounts and the statements of rejected ballot papers and of the result of the verification of the ballot paper accounts,

(c)the tendered votes lists, the lists of voters with disabilities assisted by companions, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, the lists maintained under rule 41 and the declarations made by the companions of voters with disabilities,

(d)the packets of the completed corresponding number lists,

(e)the packets of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll, and

(f)the packets containing marked copies of registers (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act) and of the postal voters list, of the lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list.

(2) At an election where the returning officer does not discharge the functions referred to in regulation 5 of the Combination of Polls Regulations, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if sub-paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) were omitted.

(3) In this rule and in rules 53, 54 and 55 references to the relevant registration officer are to—

(a)the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the election is held and in which the parish or community is situate;

(b)if the electoral area for the relevant election or referendum comprises any part of the area of more than one local authority, the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the greater or greatest (as the case may be) number of electors is registered;

(c)if the returning officer discharges the functions referred to in regulation 5 of the Combination of Polls Regulations, the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the parish or community election is held and in which the parish or community is situate.

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