Postal ballot procedure: required dispatch methods and notice publication, with fixed treatment for late consents. The amendment mandates that postal ballot notices be sent either under Registered Post Acknowledgement Due or under certificate of posting and accompanied by an advertisement in a leading English newspaper and a vernacular paper announcing despatch of ballot papers; it makes certain previously permissive provisions mandatory, revises enumerated matters includable by postal ballot, requires the scrutinizer to report promptly after the last date for receipt of ballots, and treats consents received after thirty days from issue of the notice as if no reply had been received.
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Postal ballot procedure: required dispatch methods and notice publication, with fixed treatment for late consents.
The amendment mandates that postal ballot notices be sent either under Registered Post Acknowledgement Due or under certificate of posting and accompanied by an advertisement in a leading English newspaper and a vernacular paper announcing despatch of ballot papers; it makes certain previously permissive provisions mandatory, revises enumerated matters includable by postal ballot, requires the scrutinizer to report promptly after the last date for receipt of ballots, and treats consents received after thirty days from issue of the notice as if no reply had been received.
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