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Regulation 74 EnvelopesI1C1

Scotland

(1)

Paragraphs (2) and (3) below prescribe the envelopes which are to be issued to a postal voter in addition to the ballot paper and F1postal voting statement (which are issued under rule 24 of the elections rulesf1).

(2)

There shall be issued an envelope for the return of the postal ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers and the postal voting statement (referred to as a “covering envelope”) which shall be marked with the letter “B”.

(3)

There shall also be issued a smaller envelope (referred to as a “ballot paper envelope”) which shall be marked with–

(a)

the letter “A”;

(b)

the words “ballot paper envelope”, and

(c)

F2unless the envelope has a window through which the number on the ballot paper (or ballot papers) can be displayed, the number of the ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Regulations substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 54(a)

F2

Words in reg. 74(3)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 52

F3

Reg. 74(4) revoked (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))

Modifications

C1

Reg. 74 applied (with modifications) (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 28

Commencement

I1

Reg. 74 in force at 16.2.2001, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

Rule 24 was substituted by paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 6 to the 2000 Act.