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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 66

Voting by post.

66.(1) Subject to sub-section (2) a parliamentary elector who satisfies the
electoral officer that he will be unable to vote at any election by reason

(a)of absence from Northern Ireland; or

(b)of illness or other physical incapacity; or

(c)of his being a person to whom paragraph (a) of sub-section (3) or
sub-section (5) of section five applies;

(2) An elector shall not vote by post at any election unless

(a)on or after the date on which the election is initiated and not later than
the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon of the second day after
nomination day the electoral officer receives an application for a postal
ballot paper either from that elector or on his behalf from a person
registered as a parliamentary elector in a constituency in Northern Ireland
who is the spouse, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild
of that elector; and

(b)that application is accompanied by a postal address to which a postal
ballot paper may be sent which address shall as respects an elector absent
from Northern Ireland be outside Northern Ireland but within the
postal voting area as defined in this Act.

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