The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999

Issue of official poll cards

36.—(1) The constituency returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to electors and their proxies an official poll card, but a card need not be sent to any person–

(i) as an elector if he is placed on the absent voters list for the election; or

(ii) as a proxy if he is entitled to vote by post as proxy at the election.

(2) An elector’s official poll card shall be sent or be delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.

(3) The official poll card shall be in the form Q or, in the case of a proxy’s poll card, R set out in the Appendix and shall set out–

(a) the name of the Scottish parliamentary constituency and (except in the case of an election to fill a vacancy in the seat of a constituency member) region for which the election is to be held;

(b) the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register;

(c) the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the elector’s polling station; and

(d) such other information, not relating to any candidate or registered party, as the constituency returning officer considers appropriate.

(4) In this paragraph–

“elector” means a person–

(a)

who is registered as a local government elector in the register to be used at the election; or

(b)

who, pending the publication of a register mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above, appears from the electors lists for that register as corrected by the registration officer to be entitled to be so registered,

and accordingly includes a person shown in the register or electors lists as below voting age if it appears from it that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll, but not otherwise.