Envelopes to be treated as covering envelopes. 71. —If the returning officer receives, before the close of the poll, an envelope other than a covering envelope and finds therein any document which it would have been appropriate to send to him in a covering envelope, he shall— ( a ) securely close the envelope; ( b ) endorse thereon, and sign, a statement that the envelope has been closed by him with the contents intact; ( c ) place the closed envelope in a postal voters ballot box; ( d ) thereafter treat the envelope as a covering envelope; and any reference in this Part to a covering envelope shall be construed as including a reference to an envelope which has been dealt with by the returning officer in accordance with this section.
§ Electoral Act 1992 s. 71Envelopes to be treated as covering envelopes
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