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Paragraph 45 Delivery of documents to relevant registration officer

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

Where the counting officer is the relevant returning or counting officer, the counting officer must then forward to the relevant registration officer the following documents—

(a)

the packets of ballot papers in the counting officer’s possession;

(b)

the ballot paper accounts and the statements of rejected ballot papers and of the result of the verification of the ballot paper accounts;

(c)

the tendered votes lists, the lists of voters and proxies with disabilities assisted by companions, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, the lists maintained under rule 33, and the declarations made by the companions of voters and proxies with disabilities;

(d)

the packets of the completed corresponding number lists;

(e)

the packets of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll; and

(f)

the packets containing marked copies of registers (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act) and of the postal voters list, of the lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list,

endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the referendum to which it relates and the name of the relevant council.

(2)

Where the counting officer at the referendum is not the relevant returning or counting officer, the counting officer must then forward to the relevant registration officer the following documents—

(a)

the packets of ballot papers in the counting officer’s possession;

(b)

the ballot paper accounts and the statements of rejected ballot papers and of the result of the verification of the ballot paper accounts; and

(c)

the packets of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll,

endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the referendum to which it relates and the name of the relevant council.