27Application for replacement postal voting papers

27 Application for replacement postal voting papers (1) A person may apply, in the approved form, to the returning officer for an election for replacement postal voting papers if the person claims that: (a) the person has applied for, or is entitled to receive, postal voting papers under regulation 26; and (b) the papers have been lost, damaged or destroyed. (2) When the application has been received by the returning officer: (a) an authorised officer must make a notation, on the postal vote certificate, that the postal voting papers (the replacement postal voting papers) are issued in replacement of other postal voting papers; and (b) the authorised officer must issue, or issue and send, the replacement postal voting papers to the applicant; and (c) these Regulations apply in relation to the replacement postal voting papers as if they were the postal voting papers being replaced.