The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

PART 4 Replacement of Stamping and Counterfoils

Forms of Corresponding Number List

28.—(1) After regulation 63 insert–

“Corresponding number lists

63A.— (1) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer under rule 19A(1) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act shall be in Form L1.

(2) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer for the purposes of rules 29(3)(e), 37(1)(b) and 37(1)(d)(2) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act shall be in Form L2.

(3) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer under rule 19A of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act, when a parliamentary election is combined with another poll under section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1985(3) shall be in Form M1.

(4) The form of the corresponding number list to be prepared by a returning officer for the purposes of rules 29(3)(e), 37(1)(b), and 37(1)(d) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act, when a parliamentary election is combined with another poll under section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 shall be in Form M2.”.

(2) In Schedule 3, in the Arrangement of Forms, after the entry relating to Form K insert–

“Form L1	Corresponding Number List for use at parliamentary election taken alone
Form L2	Corresponding Number List for use in polling station at parliamentary election taken alone
Form M1	Corresponding Number List for use when parliamentary election combined with another poll
Form M2	Corresponding Number List for use in polling station when parliamentary election combined with another poll”.

(3) After Form K in Schedule 3, insert Forms L1, L2, M1 and M2 as set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Removal of requirement to stamp ballot papers and replacement of counterfoils

29.—(1) In regulation 72(4) omit paragraph (1) and for “counterfoil attached to the ballot paper” in paragraph (2) substitute “corresponding number list, next to the number and unique identifying mark of the ballot paper issued to that elector”.

(2) In regulation 75, in the heading and in paragraph (1), for the word “counterfoils” substitute “completed corresponding number lists”.

(1)

Rule 19A was added by section 31 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22).

(2)

Rule 29(3)(e) was also added by that section of the 2006 Act; rule 37 was substituted by paragraph 75 of Schedule 1 to that Act.

(3)

1985 c. 50; section 15 was amended by section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) and by paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26).

(4)

Regulation 72 was amended by S.I. 2002/1872.