Rule 2 Interpretation

In these Rules—

• F1“anonymous elector’s document” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Voter Identification Regulations 2022;

• “relevant returning or counting officer” means the returning officer or the counting officer discharging the functions under (as the case may be)—

  1. (a)

     regulation 5 of the Combination of Polls Regulations M1; or

  2. (b)

     regulation 13(2);

• “voter” means a person entitled to vote on his or her own behalf.

• F2“temporary electoral identity document” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Voter Identification Regulations 2022;

Subject to paragraph (1), expressions used both in these Rules and the 1983 Act (as it applies to local government elections) have the same meaning in these Rules as they have in that Act.