17Application to vote by post

17 Application to vote by post

17 Application to vote by post

(1) The following electors may make an application to the returning officer to vote by post—

(a) an elector who will not, throughout the hours of polling on polling day, be on the Island,

(b) an elector who, because of illness or infirmity will be precluded from attending at the polling place to vote,

(c) an elector who, because of the elector’s membership of a religious order or the elector’s religious beliefs—

(i) is precluded from attending at the polling place to vote, or

(ii) is precluded from voting throughout the hours of polling on polling day or throughout the greater part of those hours,

(d) an elector who is precluded from attending at the polling place to vote because the elector is—

(i) an inmate of a correctional centre (within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999), or

(ii) a detainee of a detention centre (within the meaning of the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987).

(2) An application to vote by post—

(a) must be in writing, and

(b) must specify the ground on which it is made, and

(c) must be signed by the elector, and

(d) may be made at any time after the publication in the Gazette of the election notice in respect of the election but not later than 7 days before polling day.

(3) The returning officer must number in consecutive order all applications to vote by post.