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8.—(1) Where the registration officer grants an application under article 9, 10, 11 or 12 he shall, where practicable, notify the applicant of his decision.
(2) Where the registration officer grants an application for the appointment of a proxy, he shall, where practicable, confirm in writing to the elector that the proxy has been appointed, his name and address and the duration of the appointment.
(3) The proxy paper to be issued by the registration officer on the appointment of a proxy may be combined with another form of proxy paper if the registration officer is issuing a proxy paper appointing that person as proxy for the same elector in respect of another election or other elections.
(4) Where the registration officer does not grant an application under article 9, 10, 11 or 12, he shall notify the applicant of his decision and, in the case of an application under article 9(1) or 12(4), of the reason for his decision; and he shall date such notification.
(5) Where under paragraph 7(1), (2) or (6) the registration officer disregards an application for the purposes of any particular election, he shall, where practicable, notify the applicant of this.
(6) Where a person is removed from the record kept in pursuance of article 9(4), the registration officer shall, where practicable, notify him of this and the reason for it.
(7) At an election where the registration officer is not the returning officer for any constituency or part of a constituency for which he is the registration officer, he shall send to that officer details of any application to vote by post which he has granted as soon as practicable after doing so.
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