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Paragraph 11 Sealing up of special lists and counterfoils

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The returning officer, as soon as practicable after the completion of the issue of the postal ballot papers, and in the presence of the agents, shall make up in separate packets—

(a)

the marked copies of the list of postal voters, and

(b)

the counterfoils of those ballot papers which were issued,

and shall seal such packets.

(2)

The sealed packet containing the marked copies of the list of postal voters may be opened by the returning officer for the purposes of a subsequent issue, and on completion of that issue the copies shall be again made up and sealed in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).