The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002

Issue of official poll cards and notifications

37.—(1) The constituency returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to each elector and proxy an official poll card or notification, but a card or notification need not be sent to any person–

(i) as an elector if he is placed on the absent voters list for the election; or

(ii) as a proxy if he is entitled to vote by post as proxy at the election.

(2) An elector’s official poll card or notification shall be sent or be delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.

(3) The official poll card or notification shall be in the form M or, in the case of a proxy, form N, set out in the Appendix and shall set out–

(a) the name of the Scottish parliamentary constituency and (except in the case of an election to fill a vacancy in the seat of a constituency member) region for which the election is to be held;

(b) the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register;

(c) the date and hours of the poll and the situation of the elector’s polling station; and

(d) such other information, not relating to any candidate or registered party, as the constituency returning officer considers appropriate.

(4) In this paragraph–

“elector” means a person–

(a)

who is registered in the register of electors for the constituency and the region on the last day for publication of notice of the election; and

(b)

includes a person then shown in that register as below voting age if (but only if) it appears from the register that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll.