- Draft legislation
This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 No. 341
68. No person may be present at the proceedings on the receipt of postal ballot papers other than—
(a)the returning officer and his clerks,
(b)a candidate,
(c)an election agent or any person appointed by a candidate to attend in his election agent’s place or, at an election of parish or community councillors, any person appointed by the candidate to attend at those proceedings, and
(d)any agents appointed under regulation 69 below.
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