Part 6Conduct of elections etc.
Access to election documents
I145Marked postal voters list
1
Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.
2
After rule 31 (notification of requirement of secrecy) insert—
Return of postal ballot papers31A
1
Where—
a
a postal vote has been returned in respect of a person who is entered on the postal voters list, or
b
a proxy postal vote has been returned in respect of a proxy who is entered on the proxy postal voters list,
the returning officer must mark the list in the prescribed manner.
2
For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a postal vote or a proxy postal vote (as the case may be) is or is not to be treated as having been returned.
3
Rule 45(1B) and (2) below does not apply for the purpose of determining whether, for the purposes of this rule, a postal vote or a proxy postal vote is returned.
3
In rule 55 (delivery of documents after poll)—
a
in paragraph (1)(e) for “of lists of proxies” substitute “
of the postal voters list, of lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list
”
;
b
after paragraph (1)(e) insert—
f
such other documents relating to elections as are prescribed,