# The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, Paragraph 46A: Postal voting documents handed in to the returning officer


(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the relevant officer must deliver to the local returning officer—
(a) any postal voting document handed in under paragraph 43(2) before the close of the poll, and
(b) the return of postal voting documents form completed in respect of it.
(2) A postal voting document may only be delivered to the local returning officer in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) if the requirements of regulation 43A are met and the paper and statement are not rejected in accordance with regulation 46B or 46D.
(3) Before delivering them to the local returning officer in accordance with sub-paragraph (1), the relevant officer must first make up into separate packets with a description of its contents written on each packet which is then sealed up—
(a) the postal voting documents;
(b) the return of postal voting documents forms for those postal voting documents.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/2/paragraph/46A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-46A
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