38Application for replacement postal voting papers

38 Application for replacement postal voting papers (1) A person who claims to be entitled to vote in an election may apply to the returning officer, in the approved form, for replacement postal voting papers, if the person claims that the person applied, or is taken to have applied, for postal voting papers and: (a) the person has not received postal voting papers, and the person's address stated in the application: (i) is not the address that has previously been associated with the person, either on the electoral roll or in the application under regulation 37(1); and (ii) is an address within the area of the election; or (b) the person is not a person mentioned in paragraph (a) but has nevertheless not received postal voting papers; or (c) the postal voting papers have been lost, damaged or destroyed.

Local Government (Electoral) Regulations 2021 25 (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.