Referendum Act, 1942

Special provisions where a general election and a constitutional referendum have the same polling day.

28.—Whenever the polling day at a constitutional referendum is also the polling day at a general election, the following provisions shall (notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act) apply and have effect in every constituency in which a poll is taken at such general election, that is to say:—

(a) the poll at such referendum shall be taken at the same time, in the same places, by the same persons, and in the same manner as the poll at such general election;

(b) the same official mark shall be used for the ballot papers at such referendum as is used for the ballot papers at such general election;

(c) the ballot papers at such general election shall not be of the same colour as the ballot papers at such referendum, and for that purpose white shall be deemed to be a colour;

(d) the ballot paper for such referendum shall be handed to each voter or, in the case of voters on the postal voters lists, sent to each voter at the same time as the ballot paper for such general election is handed or sent to him;

(e) the returning officer may, if he so thinks proper, provide separáte ballot boxes for the ballot papers for such referendum and for the ballot papers for such general election;

(f) if such separate boxes are so provided, a ballot paper for such referendum shall not be invalid by reason only of its being put into a ballot box provided for ballot papers for such general election, and a ballot paper for such general election shall not be invalid by reason only of its being put into a ballot box provided for ballot papers for such referendum;

(g) if such separate ballot boxes are not so provided, the ballot papers for such referendum and the ballot papers for such general election shall be put into the same ballot boxes.