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Paragraph 33 Issue of official poll cards

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(1)

At—

(a)

an ordinary election where an elector is entitled to give two votes, or

(b)

an Assembly election (other than one at an ordinary election where paragraph (a) applies),

the constituency returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to electors and their proxies an official poll card, but a card need not be sent to any person—

(i)

as an elector if he is placed on the absent voters list for the ordinary or Assembly election, or

(ii)

as a proxy if he is entitled to vote by post as proxy at such election.

(2)

An elector’s official poll card shall be sent or be delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.

(3)

The official poll card shall set out—

(a)

the name of the Assembly constituency or electoral region for which the election is to be held, or, in the case of an ordinary election where there are contested elections for an Assembly constituency and electoral region, both such areas,

(b)

the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register,

(c)

the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the elector’s polling station, and

(d)

such other information, not relating to any candidate or registered political party, as the constituency returning officer considers appropriate.

(4)

At an ordinary election where an elector is entitled to give two votes, the official poll card issued to an elector shall be in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix.

(5)

At an Assembly election where sub-paragraph (4) does not apply, the official poll card issued to an elector shall be in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix.

(6)

At an ordinary election where an elector is entitled to give two votes, the official poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix.

(7)

At an Assembly election where sub-paragraph (6) does not apply, the official poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix.

(8)

In this paragraph—

  • “elector” means a person—

    1. (a)

      who is registered as a local government elector—

      1. (i)

        in relation to a constituency election, in the Assembly constituency in a register to be used at the election, or

      2. (ii)

        in relation to a regional election, in the Assembly electoral region in a register to be used at the election, or

    2. (b)

      who, pending the publication of a register mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) or (ii), appears from the electors lists for that register as corrected by the registration officer to be entitled to be so registered,

    and accordingly includes a person shown in the register or electors lists as below voting age if it appears from it that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll, but not otherwise, and

  • “electoral number” means—

    1. (i)

      a person’s number in that register, or

    2. (ii)

      pending the publication of the register, his number (if any) in the electors lists for that register.