The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

[F1 Issue of official poll cards N.I.

29.— (1) The returning officer must as soon as practicable after the publication of the notice of election send to electors and their proxies the appropriate official poll card, but a card need not be sent to any person—

(a) as an elector if he is placed on the absent voters list for the election; or

(b) as a proxy if he is entitled to vote by post as proxy at the election,

and a card must not be sent to any person registered, or to be registered, in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration.

(2) An elector’s official poll card must be sent or delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.

(3) The official poll card issued to an elector must be in Form F in the Appendix of Forms.

(4) The official poll card issued to the proxy of an elector must be in Form G in the Appendix of Forms.

(5) The official poll card must set out—

(a) the name of the electoral region;

(b) the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register;

(c) the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the elector’s polling station;

(d) such other information as the returning officer thinks appropriate,

and different information may be provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (d) to different electors or descriptions of elector.

(6) In this rule “elector” has the same meaning as in regulation 58(4) and, pending publication of the register, the elector’s number in the register includes his number (if any) in the electors list for that register.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (27.3.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/813), regs. 1(2), 38, Sch. 1