The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007

Retrieval of cancelled postal ballot papers

26.—(1) Where it appears to the constituency returning officer that a cancelled postal ballot paper has been placed—

(a) in a postal voters' ballot box; or

(b) in the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes; or

(c) a postal ballot box,

he shall proceed as follows.

(2) He shall, on at least one occasion on which a postal voters ballot box is opened in accordance with paragraph 19 of this Schedule, also open any postal ballot box and the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes and—

(a) retrieve the cancelled ballot paper;

(b) show the ballot paper number on the cancelled ballot paper to the agents;

(c) retrieve the postal voting statement that relates to a cancelled ballot paper from the receptacle for postal voting statements;

(d) attach any cancelled postal ballot paper to the postal voting statement to which it relates;

(e) place the cancelled documents in a separate packet and deal with that packet in the manner provided for by paragraph 14(7) of this Schedule; and

(f) unless the postal ballot box has been opened for the purposes of counting the votes under rule 55 of Schedule 5 reseal the postal ballot box in the presence of the agents.