{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3304",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-england-and-wales-rules-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/52",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Delivery of documents to relevant registration officer",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must then forward to the relevant registration officer the following documents—\n(a) the packets of ballot papers in his possession,\n(b) the ballot paper accounts and the statements of rejected ballot papers and of the result of the verification of the ballot paper accounts,\n(c) the tendered votes lists, the lists of voters with disabilities assisted by companions, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, the lists maintained under rule 41, and the declarations made by the companions of voters with disabilities,\n(ca) the packet containing the completed ballot paper refusal list,\n(d) the packets of the completed corresponding number lists,\n(e) the packets of certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll, and\n(f) the packets containing marked copies of registers (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act) and of the postal voters list, of the lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list.\n(2) In this rule and in rules 53, 54 and 55 references to the relevant registration officer are to the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the election is held.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 52(1)(ca) inserted (16.1.2023 with application in accordance with rule 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Voter Identification (Principal Area, Parish and Greater London Authority Elections) (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1397), rules 1(1), 4(15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3304/schedule/2/paragraph/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:11.237089+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."
}