SCHEDULE 4Combination of polls

PART 3Modifications to election rules to apply where the poll at an election of county or county borough councillors is taken together with a poll at an Assembly election under Article 16(1) or (2)

Rule 16 of principal area election rules (the ballot papers)28

1

After rule 16(2)(d) of the principal area election rules insert—

e

must be of a different colour from that of any ballot papers used at an Assembly election and at any local government election the polls of which are taken together with the poll at the principal area election.

2

At the end of rule 16 of the principal area election rules add—

6

References to an Assembly election in paragraph (2)(e) and elsewhere in these rules refer to an election to the National Assembly for Wales; and references to an Assembly election (and to a poll at such an election) include a reference to Assembly elections (and to polls at such elections) where the context so requires.