Paragraph 70 Retention and public inspection of documents

(1)

The CRO shall retain the documents specified in rule 68(1) for a year and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the Court of Session, shall cause them to be destroyed.

(2)

The documents mentioned in paragraph (1) except—

(a)

ballot papers;

(b)

the completed corresponding number lists; and

(c)

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

shall be open to public inspection.

(3)

Each of the following shall, on request, be supplied with a copy of the marked copies of the polling register, the postal voters list, the list of proxies and the proxy postal voters list—

(a)

a registered party;

(b)

a person who was a candidate at the constituency election to which those documents relate;

(c)

a person who was a candidate (whether an individual candidate or a candidate on a registered party’s list) at the regional election to which those documents relate.

(4)

Schedule 8 makes further provision as to inspection of, and access to, documents retained by the CRO.