Paragraph 46C Procedure for dealing with rejected postal voting documents handed in to the returning officerF1

Where any postal voting document has been rejected in accordance with regulation 46B the relevant officer must indicate this, together with the reason or reasons for the rejection and the relevant officer’s name, on the return of postal voting documents form and attach the form to the postal voting documents concerned.

The relevant officer must make up a packet (or packets) of the rejected postal voting documents and the accompanying return of postal voting documents forms which must be sealed up with a description of its contents written on each packet.

Where a return of postal voting documents form relates to postal voting documents which have not all been rejected, that form must be dealt with as if it related just to rejected postal voting documents, and the postal voting documents which have been rejected must be noted on it.

The relevant officer must deliver those packets to the local returning officer before the close of the poll.