# The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025, Paragraph 27: Checking of lists kept under paragraph 26

Extent: E+W

(1) Where the returning officer receives a valid postal voting statement without the postal ballot paper, or papers, or all of the papers, to which it relates, the returning officer may, at any time prior to the close of the poll, check the list kept under paragraph 26(2) to see whether the number, or numbers, of a postal ballot paper to which the statement relates is or are entered in that list.
(2) Where the returning officer receives a postal ballot paper without the postal voting statement relating to it, the returning officer may, at any time prior to the close of the poll, check the list kept under paragraph 26(3) to see whether the number of that ballot paper is entered in that list.
(3) The returning officer must conduct the checks required by sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) as soon as practicable after the receipt of packets from every polling station under rule 55 of Schedule 5 (procedure on close of poll).
(4) Where the ballot paper number in the list matches that number on a valid postal voting statement or the postal ballot paper, the returning officer must retrieve that statement or paper.
(5) The returning officer must then take the appropriate steps under this Schedule as though any document earlier marked with the words “gwrthodwyd dros dro” or the words “provisionally rejected” or both, had not been so marked and must amend the document accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/2/paragraph/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-27
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