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45.—(1) Where the counting officer is the relevant returning or counting officer, he 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 and proxies with disabilities assisted by companions, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, the lists maintained under rule 34, and the declarations made by the companions of voters and proxies 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,
endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the referendum to which they relate and the name of the local authority by which or in respect of which the referendum was held.
(2) Where the counting officer at the referendum is not the relevant returning or counting officer, paragraph (1) has effect as if sub-paragraphs (c), (d) and (f) were omitted.
(3) In this rule and in rules 46 and 47 references to the relevant registration officer are to—
(a)the registration officer of the local authority by or in respect of which the referendum is held;
(b)if the electoral area of 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;
and for these purposes “local authority” does not include the Greater London Authority.
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