The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003

Absent voters list at Assembly elections

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the registration officer shall, in respect of each Assembly election, keep a special list (“the absent voters list”) consisting of—

(a) a list of—

(i) those who are for the time being shown in the record kept under article 8 as voting by post at Assembly elections (excluding those so shown whose applications under article 9(2) to vote by proxy at the election have been granted), together with the addresses provided by them in their applications under article 8 or article 9(2) as the addresses to which their ballot papers are to be sent, and

(ii) those whose applications under article 9(1) to vote by post at the election have been granted, together with the addresses provided by them in their applications as the addresses to which their ballot papers are to be sent, and

(b) a list (“the list of proxies”) of those who are for the time being shown in the record kept under article 8 as voting by proxy at Assembly elections or whose applications under article 9 to vote by proxy at the election have been granted, together with the names and addresses of those appointed as their proxies.

(2) Where electors are entitled to give two votes at an ordinary election in an Assembly constituency, only one absent voters list shall be kept under paragraph (1) and that list shall have effect in relation to both elections.