The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007

Votes marked by presiding officer

47.—(1) The presiding officer on the application of a voter—

(a) who is incapacitated by blindness or other disability from voting in a manner directed by these rules; or

(b) who declares orally that he is unable to read,

shall, in the presence of the polling agents, cause the voter’s vote to be marked on a ballot paper in a manner directed by the voter, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.

(2) The name and number on the register of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list (in this Schedule called “the list of votes marked by the presiding officer”).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) in the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be entered together with the voter’s name shall be the elector’s number.

(4) In the case of a person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act, paragraph (2) applies as if for “on the register of electors of every voter” there were substituted “relating to every voter in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act”.

(5) Where the polls at a constituency election and a regional election are to be taken together, the same list of votes marked by the presiding officer may be used for the constituency and regional elections at which the voters are entitled to vote and, where it is so used, an entry in that list shall be taken to mean that the ballot papers were so marked in respect of each election, unless the list identifies the election at which the ballot paper was so marked.