“adding material” means records of counting and all other documents relating to the adding of votes;
“counting material”, in relation to a counting place, means all ballot papers (counted or uncounted) despatched to that counting place and all other documents relating to the counting of votes at that counting place;
“counting place for overseas votes” means the place or places directed by the Returning Officer under section 56D(1) of the Act;
“disrupted” has the meaning given by regulation 3;
“overseas vote” means a vote cast at an overseas polling station or by the postal voting method;
“presiding officer”, in relation to a polling station, means any presiding officer for the polling station;
“stage of an election” means —
(a)
the nomination proceedings;
(b)
polling;
(c)
the counting of votes (whether cast in a polling station or by the postal voting method);
(d)
the adding of counted votes; or
(e)
the pre-count examination of postal voting papers;