317Issue of postal ballot-paper

317 Issue of postal ballot-paper

317 Issue of postal ballot-paper

(1) On receiving the elector’s duly made application for a postal vote or the list on which the elector’s name appears, the election manager is to make a record that a ballot-paper is being issued to the elector and deliver or send the following to the elector—

(a) a ballot-paper that is initialled on the front by an election official (by hand or by electronic or mechanical means),

(b) either—

(i) a postal vote certificate envelope and, if the envelope is not addressed to the returning officer, another envelope addressed to the returning officer, or

(ii) a postal vote certificate and an envelope addressed to the returning officer for the return of the ballot-paper and postal vote certificate,

(c) (Repealed)

(d) information as to how to access the candidate information sheets of the candidates in the election that have been published on the election manager’s website under section 290(4).

(1A) On the making of a declaration of COVID-19 affected electors under section 314A, the election manager is, for each COVID-19 affected elector, other than an elector who has duly made application for a postal vote, to make a record that a ballot-paper is being issued to the elector and deliver or send the items and information referred to in subsection (1)(a)–(d) to the elector.

(2) Items specified in subsection (1)(a), (b) and (d) delivered or sent under this section to a non-resident postal voter are to be delivered or sent to—

(a) the residential address of that elector, or

(b) if the elector specified another preferred postal address in the application for a postal vote under section 314—the address specified in the application.

s 317: Am 2021 (617), Sch 1[6]; 2024 (327), Sch 1[5]–[7].