The returning officer shall give each candidate not less than 48 hours’ notice in writing of the time and place at which he will issue postal ballot papers and of the number of agents which each candidate may appoint under regulation 73 to attend that issue.

Where any subsequent issue of postal ballot papers is made, the returning officer shall notify each candidate as soon as practicable of the time and place at which he will make such subsequent issue and of the number of agents the candidate may appoint under regulation 73 to attend such issue.

Nothing in this regulation applies to the issue of tendered postal ballot papers under rule 40ZA of the elections rules.