Referendums (Scotland) Act 2020

Delivery of papers

37 (1) After sealing the papers in accordance with rule 36, the counting officer must send the papers mentioned in paragraph (2) to the proper officer of the council for the local government area in which the votes being counted have been cast, endorsing on each packet a description of its contents and the date of the referendum.

(2) Those papers are—

(a) the packets of ballot papers in the counting officer’s possession,

(b) the ballot paper accounts, the statements of rejected ballot papers and the verification statements,

(c) the tendered votes list, the assisted voters list, the marked votes list, the polling day alterations lists and the companion declarations,

(d) the packets of the completed corresponding numbers lists,

(e) the packets of the certificates mentioned in rule 15(6), and

(f) the packets containing marked copies of the register of local government electors (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act) and of the postal voters list, of lists of proxies and of the proxy postal voters list.