{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/rule-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/rule-47.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1460",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Communities) (Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-communities-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/rule/47",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Duties of presiding officer in relation to tendered ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) This rule sets out the duties of the presiding officer in relation to tendered ballot papers.\n(2) The presiding officer must endorse the following information on the ballot paper—\n(a) the name of the voter, and\n(b) the voter’s number in the copies of the registration records or, if the voter is voting as proxy for an elector, the number of the elector.\n(3) The presiding officer must put the ballot paper in a separate packet.\n(4) The following information must be entered on a list (the “tendered votes list”)—\n(a) the name of the voter, and\n(b) the voter’s number in the copies of the registration records or, if the voter is voting as proxy for an elector, the number of the elector.\n(5) Where an elector has an anonymous entry, the presiding officer must not include the name of the voter on the ballot paper or in the tendered votes list.\n(6) The same tendered votes list may be used for the community election and each relevant election.\n(7) Where the same list is used, an entry in the list is to be taken as meaning that the presiding officer was given a tendered ballot paper in respect of the community election and in respect of each relevant election, unless the list identifies one or more elections at which a tendered ballot paper was given.\n(8) In this rule, “the copies of the registration records” has the same meaning as in rule 40 (see paragraph (7) of that rule).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 47 in force at 17.12.2021, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1460/schedule/2/rule/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:52.467745+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}