{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-60P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-60P.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/60P",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "60P",
  "heading": "Transfer of excluded candidates’ other ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) the returning officer has transferred all the transferable papers of an excluded candidate or candidates that the returning officer is required to transfer under rule 60O, and\n(b) one or more vacancies remain to be filled (after the application where relevant of rule 60S).\n(2) The returning officer must sort all the ballot papers, if any, which were transferred to the excluded candidate (or any of the excluded candidates) at an earlier stage in the count into groups according to the transfer value at which the votes on the ballot papers were received by that candidate.\n(3) The returning officer must then sort the ballot papers in the group of ballot papers with votes of the highest transfer value into further groups as follows—\n(a) according to the continuing candidate for whom the next available preference is given on those papers, or\n(b) where no next available preference is given, as a separate group.\nThe ballot papers in the groups formed under paragraph (a) (“transferable papers”) are to be transferred in accordance with this rule. The ballot papers in the group formed under paragraph (b) (“non-transferable papers”) are not to be transferred.\n(4) The returning officer must transfer each group of transferable papers to the continuing candidate for whom the next available preference is given on those papers.\n(5) The vote on each transferable paper is transferred at a transfer value, which is the value at which the vote on the ballot paper was received by the excluded candidate from whom the paper is being transferred.\n(6) Where the returning officer has completed the transfers required by paragraph (4) and one or more vacancies remain to be filled (after the application where relevant of rule 60S), the returning officer must repeat the steps in paragraphs (3) to (5) in relation to the remaining groups of ballot papers formed under paragraph (2), dealing with each group in descending order according to the value of the votes until either—\n(a) there are no remaining vacancies to be filled (after the application where relevant of rule 60S), or\n(b) every group has been dealt with.\n(7) Paragraph (6) applies whether or not any candidate is treated as elected and has a surplus following the completion of the steps in paragraphs (3) to (5) in relation to the group of ballot papers with votes of the highest transfer value or in relation to any of the remaining groups.\n(8) In a case where every group of ballot papers formed under paragraph (2) has been dealt with but one or more vacancies remain to be filled (after the application where relevant of rule 60S), the returning officer must proceed as follows—\n(a) in accordance with rule 60K if one or more candidates treated as elected following the transfer of ballot papers under rule 60O or this rule has a surplus, and\n(b) otherwise in accordance with rule 60O.\n(9) For the meaning of “continuing candidate”, “next available preference” and “surplus”, see rule 60F.\n(10) See also rule 60R (which makes supplementary provision).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 4A inserted (9.10.2023) by The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Single Transferable Vote) (Wales) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1064), rules 1(2), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1459/schedule/1/paragraph/60P",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:54.669941+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."
}