The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017

Delivery and retention of documentsU.K.

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62.—(1) The returning officer must then forward to the relevant registration officer of the F1... council concerned the following documents—

(a)the packets of ballot papers in the returning officer's 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 43 and the declarations made by the companions of voters with disabilities,

[F2(ca)the packet containing the completed ballot paper refusal list,]

(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,

(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 election to which they relate and the name of the electoral area for which the election was held.

(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 (f) were omitted.

(3) In this rule and in rules [F363, 64 and 65] references to the relevant registration officer are to the registration officer of the F4... council in relation to whose area the returning officer exercises functions under this Order.

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