The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002

Delivery and retention of documents

51.  The returning officer shall then forward to the proper officer of the local authority concerned the following documents—

(a) the packets of ballot papers in his possession,

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

(c) the packets of counterfoils and certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll,

(d) the marked copies of registers and of lists of proxies, and

(e) the tended votes lists, the lists of voters with disabilities assisted by companies, the lists of votes marked by the presiding officer and the related statements, and the declarations made by the companions of voters with disabilities,

endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the date of the election to which they relate and the name of the electoral area for which the election was held.