# The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2015, Paragraph 24: Retrieval of cancelled postal ballot papers


(1) Where it appears to the returning officer that a cancelled postal ballot paper has been placed—
(a) in a postal voters’ ballot box;
(b) in the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes; or
(c) a postal ballot box,
the CRO shall proceed as follows.
(2) The CRO shall, on at least one occasion on which a postal voters’ ballot box is opened in accordance with paragraph 19, also open any postal ballot box and the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes and—
(a) retrieve the cancelled ballot paper;
(b) show the ballot paper number on the cancelled ballot paper to the agents;
(c) retrieve the postal voting statement that relates to a cancelled ballot paper from the receptacle for postal voting statements (verification procedure);
(d) attach any cancelled postal ballot paper to the postal voting statement to which it relates;
(e) place the cancelled documents in a separate packet and deal with that packet in the manner provided for by paragraph 13(7); and
(f) unless the postal ballot box has been opened for the purposes of the counting of votes under rule 55 of the Scottish Parliamentary Election Rules, re-seal the postal ballot box in the presence of the agents.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111029916/schedule/4/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-24
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