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PART 5N.I.ISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

Interpretation of Part 5N.I.

70.—[F1(1)] For the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“absent voters list” means the list kept under section 7(4) of the 1985 Act;

“agent” includes the election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;

“ballot paper envelope” and “covering envelope” means the envelopes referred to in regulation 78;

[F2“left behind postal voting document” has the same meaning as in regulation 84F(1);”;]

“list of postal proxies” means the list kept under section 9(9) of the 1985 Act;

“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;

“postal voter” means an elector or proxy who is entitled to vote by post;

“postal voters’ ballot box” means the ballot box referred to in regulation 83(1)(a);

[F2“postal voting document” means a postal ballot paper or declaration of identity;”;]

“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes”, and other references to specified receptacles, means the receptacles referred to in regulation 83(5);

[F2“return of postal voting documents form” has the same meaning as in regulation 84A(2);]

“spoilt postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper referred to in regulation 81(1);

“universal postal service provider” has the meaning given in [F3Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011] to a “universal service provider”; and

“valid declaration of identity” means one falling within regulation 87(1).

[F4(2) In this Part, a reference to a person seeking to hand in a postal voting document is a reference to a person seeking to hand in a covering envelope purporting to contain a postal voting document to the returning officer.]

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)