Article 9 Amendment of Schedule 5 to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962

(1)

Schedule 5 to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (local election rules) is amended as follows.

(2)

In rule 45 (preliminary proceedings and conduct of the count)^f1, in paragraph (2)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a), after “it is returned” insert “by post or by hand”;

(b)

at the end of sub-paragraph (a) omit “and”;

(c)

after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

“and

(c)

the postal ballot paper is not one that falls to be rejected in accordance with paragraph 15C of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.”.

(3)

In the Appendix of Forms^f2—

(a)

replace form 5 (declaration of identity) with the form in Schedule 2;

(b)

replace form 6A (elector’s official postal poll card) with the form in Schedule 3;

(c)

replace form 7A (proxy’s official postal poll card) with the form in Schedule 4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Rule 45 was substituted by S.I. 1985/454, and paragraph (2) was amended by S.I. 2002/2835.
f2: Relevant amendments were made by paragraph 61(4) of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and S.I. 2010/2977, 2014/1116, 2015/566 and 2020/635.