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26.—(1) The CRO must as soon as practicable after the publication of the notice of election, send to electors and their proxies an official poll card.
(2) An elector’s official poll card must be sent or delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.
(3) The official poll card must be in the appropriate form or a form to like effect, and must set out—
(a)that the election is a mayoral election,
(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 as the CRO thinks appropriate,
and different information may be provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (d) to different electors or descriptions of elector.
(4) In the case of an elector with an anonymous entry, instead of containing the matter mentioned in paragraph (3)(b), the polling card must contain such matter as is specified in the appropriate form.
(5) At an ordinary election, the CRO must issue a combined poll card in the appropriate form.
(6) In this rule “elector” means—
(a)an elector with an entry on the register to be used at the election on the last day for the publication of the notice of the election, and
(b)includes a person then shown in the 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.
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