# The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012, Paragraph 27A: Requirements of return of postal voting documents form


The requirements of this rule are—
(a) the person handing in a postal voting document (“P”) completes a form containing the following information (a “return of postal voting documents form”)—
(i) P’s name and address,
(ii) whether P is handing in P’s own postal voting documents,
(iii) the number of other named voters for whom P is handing in postal voting documents,
(iv) the total number of envelopes containing postal ballot papers P is handing in, including P’s own,
(v) the reason P is handing in postal voting documents for other named voters,
(vi) a declaration by P that P has not handed in postal voting documents at any polling station or to the counting officer for a total of more than the number of named voters other than P set out in rule 27B(1)(c) or 30B(1)(c), including those being handed in at that time and that to the best of P’s knowledge, P is not a political campaigner for whom it is an offence to handle the postal voting documents concerned in accordance with section 112A of the 1983 Act;
(b) the relevant officer has endorsed the return of postal voting documents form returned by P to confirm the relevant officer’s name and that—
(i) the relevant officer is satisfied that the form has been completed properly and provides the information required by paragraph (a),
(ii) the relevant officer does not suspect that the number of named voters other than P for whom P is handing in postal voting documents exceeds the number of named voters specified in rule 27B(1)(b) or (c), or rule 30B(1)(b) or (c),
(iii) the relevant officer does not suspect that P is a political campaigner who is committing an offence under section 112A of the 1983 Act, and
(iv) the postal voting documents to which the form relates are not rejected.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/7/paragraph/27A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-7/paragraph-27A
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