The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 No. 2977

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments to the 1985 Order

Part 3 Amendments to Part 3 of Schedule 2 (Absent voting – issue and receipt of ballot papers)

19.—(1) Paragraph 6 (marking of postal ballot paper) is amended as follows.

(2) For the heading substitute “Procedure on issue of postal ballot paper”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1) for the words preceding “and a mark” substitute “The number of the elector as stated in the register shall be marked on the corresponding number list, next to the number and unique identifying mark of the ballot paper issued to the elector”.

(4) After sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) The address to which the postal ballot paper, declaration of identity and the envelopes referred to in paragraph 8 are to be sent is—

(a) in the case of an elector, the address shown in the absent voters list; and

(b) in the case of a proxy, the address shown in the special list kept under paragraph 4(8) of Part 1 of this Schedule.”.