Delivery and safekeeping of election materials
8.—(1)  At any time after the notice of contested election is published in the Gazette but before voting begins at any overseas polling station, the Returning Officer shall deliver to the Assistant Returning Officer assigned to the overseas polling station sufficient quantities of election materials and the necessary instructions for the overseas election officers appointed to that overseas polling station to perform their duties under the Act and these Regulations.
(2)  Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Returning Officer shall deliver to the Assistant Returning Officer assigned to an overseas polling station —
(a)enough ballot papers for the number of overseas electors allotted to vote at that overseas polling station;
(b)the necessary materials for electors to mark their votes on the ballot papers;
(c)all certified registers of electors;
(d)a list (certified by the Registration Officer as to its correctness) showing the overseas electors allotted to vote at that overseas polling station, which shall be extracted from the certified registers of electors for all electoral divisions in respect of which a notice of contested election is published;
(e)one or more ballot boxes;
(f)the form of the oaths or declarations to be administered to electors;
(g)the necessary envelopes, forms and other supplies that may be authorised or provided by the Returning Officer in connection with the conduct of a poll at that overseas polling station; and
(h)all names and particulars of persons received by the Returning Officer under regulation 15(2) as the persons appointed to act as polling agents at that overseas polling station.
(3)  Until the opening of the poll at his overseas polling station, the Assistant Returning Officer in charge of the overseas polling station shall be responsible for all election materials in his possession and must take every precaution for the safekeeping of those materials and to prevent any person from having unlawful access to them.