C2PART VISSUE AND RECEIPT OF POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS

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Issue of Postal Ballot Papers

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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 F2postal voting statement (which are issued under rule 24 of the elections rules46).

2

There shall be issued an envelope for the return of the postal ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers and the F2postal voting statement (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

F1unless the envelope has a window through which the number on the ballot paper (or ballot papers) can be displayed, the number of the ballot paper or, as the case may be, ballot papers.

4

Where polls are taken together (under the provisions referred to in regulation 65 above) but not the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers—

a

the envelope referred to in paragraph (2) above shall also be marked “Covering envelope for the [insert colour of ballot paper] coloured ballot paper”, and

b

on the envelope referred to in paragraph (3) above, after the words “Ballot paper envelope” there shall be added the words “for the [insert colour of ballot paper] coloured ballot paper”.