SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Combination of polls

PART 3Modifications to PCC elections rules

COUNTING OF VOTES

Additional steps: verification and count carried out at different places40

1

Rule 50 is modified as follows.

2

For paragraph (1) substitute—

1

This rule applies where—

a

the local returning officer is the relevant returning or counting officer, and

b

the votes at the PCC election are to be counted at a place other than that at which the procedures for the verification of the ballot paper accounts are carried out.

3

In paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) (in each place), for “local returning officer” substitute “ relevant returning or counting officer ”.