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44(1)As soon as practicable after the completion of the procedure under paragraph 43(3) and (4), the counting officer must make up into separate packets the contents of—
(a)the receptacle for rejected votes,
(b)the receptacle for postal voting statements,
(c)the receptacle for rejected ballot paper envelopes,
(d)the lists of spoilt, lost and superseded postal ballot papers,
(e)the receptacle for rejected votes (verification procedure), and
(f)the receptacle for postal voting statements (verification procedure),
and must seal up such packets.
(2)Any document in those packets marked “provisionally rejected” is to be deemed to be marked “rejected”.
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