8(1)This paragraph applies where the Chief Electoral Officer decides that the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers in respect of the referendum and the relevant elections are not to be taken together.U.K.
(2)If the Chief Electoral Officer thinks fit, the officer may prepare a single list containing the numbers and other unique identifying marks of all of the ballot papers to be provided to presiding officers in pursuance of the following provisions—
(a)rule 17(1) of the referendum rules;
(b)rule 29(1) of the Assembly Elections Rules;
(c)rule 26(1) of the Local Elections Rules.
(3)The list must be in the form set out in Form 1 in Part 3 of this Schedule.
(4)If a list is prepared in relation to ballot papers under this paragraph, the list prepared under the following provisions must not include details relating to those ballot papers—
(a)rule 6 of the referendum rules;
(b)rule 19A of the Assembly Elections Rules;
(c)rule 16A of the Local Elections Rules.
(5)A reference in an enactment to a list prepared under a provision mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) has effect, in so far as it relates to ballot papers to be provided in pursuance of the provisions mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), as a reference to the list prepared under this paragraph.