61Dealing with certain votes cast by absent voters

61 Dealing with certain votes cast by absent voters (1) If the authorised officer in charge of a scrutiny centre finds an unenclosed absent ballot paper in a ballot box at a voting centre, the officer must not reject the ballot paper from scrutiny merely because it is not in an envelope.

Local Government (Electoral) Regulations 2021 37 (2) The officer must: (a) place the unenclosed absent ballot paper in an envelope bearing the name of the local government area or ward and the name of the voting centre; and (b) send it to the authorised officer for the local government area or ward to which it relates. (3) In this regulation: unenclosed absent ballot paper means a ballot paper to which regulation 21(1)(c)(ii) applies that is not contained in an envelope bearing the name of the local government area or ward stated on the ballot paper.