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27.—(1) The ballot of every voter at a poll for the return of a constituency member shall consist of a ballot paper (referred to in these Rules as a “constituency ballot paper”).
(2) The persons shown in the statement required by rule 18 (statement of persons nominated as candidates for return as a constituency member) and no others, shall be entitled to have their names inserted in the constituency ballot paper.
(3) Every constituency ballot paper shall be in the form I set out in the Appendix, and shall be printed in accordance with the directions in that form, and—
(a)shall contain the names and descriptions of the candidates as shown in the statement required by rule 18;
(b)must bear an official mark on the front; and
(c)must have a unique identifying number printed on the back.
(4) The order of the names in the constituency ballot paper shall be alphabetical, as set out in the statement required by rule 18.
(5) If a candidate’s description falls within rule 4(5)(a) or (b), and if the candidate so requests, the ballot paper shall also contain, to the right of that candidate’s particulars—
(a)where the description falls within rule 4(5)(a) (name of one registered party), the registered emblem (or one of the registered emblems) of the party named in that description; or
(b)where the description falls within rule 4(5)(b) (names of two registered parties), the registered emblem (or one of the registered emblems) of one of the parties named in that description.
(6) The request must—
(a)be made in writing to the CRO; and
(b)be received by the CRO during the period for delivery of nomination papers set out in the Table in rule 1(1).
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I1Sch. 2 para. 27 in force at 16.12.2015 in accordance with art. 1(1)
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