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

Issue of official poll cards

36.—(1) At an Assembly election the constituency returning officer shall as soon as practicable after the publication of notice of the election send to electors and their proxies an official poll card.

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

(3) In accordance with the following provisions of this rule, the official poll card shall set out—

(a) the name of the Assembly constituency or electoral region for which the election is to be held, or, where the polls at a constituency election and a regional election are to be taken together, both such areas;

(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 political party, as the constituency returning officer considers appropriate,

and different information may be provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (d) to different electors or descriptions of electors.

(4) In the case of an elector with an anonymous entry, instead of containing the matter mentioned in paragraph (3)(b), the official poll card shall contain such matter as is specified in the appropriate form referred to in paragraph (5), (6), (7) or (8).

(5) The official poll card issued to an elector shall be in form CN1 set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 10.

(6) The official poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in form CN2 set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 10.

(7) The official postal poll card issued to an elector shall be in form CN3 set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 10.

(8) The official postal poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in form CN4 set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 10.

(9) In this rule—

“elector” means a person—

(a)

who is registered in the register for the Assembly constituency or as the case may be, Assembly electoral region on the last day for publication of notice of the election in question; 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.