The ballot paper: regional candidates
28.—(1) The ballot of every voter at a poll for the return of regional members shall consist of a ballot paper (referred to in these Rules as a “regional ballot paper”).
(2) The following, namely—
(a)the registered parties shown in the statement required by rule 19 (statement of persons nominated as candidates for return as regional members); and
(b)the individual candidates shown in that statement,
and no others, shall be entitled to have their names and descriptions inserted in the regional ballot paper.
(3) Every regional ballot paper shall be in the form J set out in the Appendix, and shall be printed in accordance with the directions in that form, and shall—
(a)contain the names and, where applicable, descriptions of the registered parties referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(a) as shown in the statement required by rule 19;
(b)contain the names and, where applicable, descriptions of the individual candidates as shown in the statement required by rule 19;
(c)bear an official mark on the front; and
(d)have a unique identifying number printed on the back.
(4) The order of the names of the registered parties and of the individual candidates in the regional ballot paper shall be alphabetical, as set out in the statement required by rule 19.
(5) If a request has been made to the RRO under rule 6(7) that a registered party’s registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems) be shown on the ballot paper against that party’s name, the ballot paper shall also contain, to the right of the party’s name, that emblem.
(6) The regional ballot paper shall be a different colour from the constituency ballot paper.