SCHEDULE 2 Amendments to the 1985 Order

Part 3 Amendments to Part 3 of Schedule 2 (Absent voting – issue and receipt of ballot papers)
23 For paragraph 11 substitute—

“Sealing up of completed corresponding number lists and security of special lists
11 1 As soon as practicable after the issue of each batch of postal ballot papers, the returning officer shall make up into a packet the completed corresponding number lists of those ballot papers which have been issued and shall seal such a packet.
2 As soon as practicable after the last batch of postal ballot papers has been issued the returning officer shall make up into a packet the marked copy of the absent voters list and the list of postal proxies and shall seal that packet.
3 Until the time referred to in paragraph (2) the returning officer shall take precautions for the security of the lists referred to in that paragraph.”

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