Electoral Act, 1960

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Voting by postal voters.

15.—(1) Section 20 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (2) and (3):

“(2) Every local returning officer shall, as soon as practicable after the date of the order of the Minister appointing the polling day at a referendum, send to every person who is on the postal voters list for his constituency a ballot paper and a form of receipt (which shall be in the prescribed form) for such ballot paper.

(3) If such ballot paper duly marked by the said person and accompanied by the said receipt duly signed by him is received by the returning officer before the close of the poll, it shall be counted by him and treated for all purposes in the same manner as a ballot paper placed in the ballot box in the ordinary way.”

(2) Rule 31 of the First Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the word “receipts” for the words “declarations of identity” in paragraph (c) of the said rule.