PART VISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

Issue of Postal Ballot Papers

Envelopes73

1

Paragraphs (2) and (3) below prescribe the envelopes which are to be issued to a postal voter in addition to the ballot paper and declaration of identity (which are issued under rule 24 of the elections rules51).

2

There shall be issued an envelope for the return of the postal ballot paper and the declaration of identity (referred to as a “covering envelope”) which shall be marked with the letter “B”.

3

There shall also be issued a smaller envelope (referred to as a “ballot paper envelope”) which shall be marked with—

a

the letter “A”;

b

the words “ballot paper envelope”; and

c

the number of the ballot paper.