Inspection of home address forms - Mayoral candidates
You should keep the home address forms secure. During office hours, on any working day in the period starting 24 hours after the close of nominations until the day before the poll only certain people are entitled to inspect home address forms. These people are:
any person standing nominated as a candidate in the same mayoral election
the election agent of any candidate standing nominated in the same mayoral election (or, if the candidate is acting as their own agent, any person nominated by them)
No more than 2 subscribers of a candidate’s nomination paper (where a person has been subscribed by more than one nomination paper, the candidate may choose a paper from which subscribers can be selected, or if no choice is made, they would be selected from the first paper that was delivered)
Inspection of home address forms - Party list and individual candidates
You should keep the home address forms secure. During office hours from 24 hours from the close of nominations until the day before the poll only certain people are entitled to inspect home address forms. These people are:
any person also standing nominated as an individual candidate or list candidate in the same electoral area
the election agent of any other person standing nominated as a list or individual candidate in the same electoral area
an individual candidate acting as their own election agent or a list candidate acting as the election agent for candidates included in that list, a person nominated by them
the nominating officer of a registered party standing also nominated in the same electoral area (or a person authorised in writing by that nominating officer)
Home address forms should be inspected under supervision. Taking extracts of the home address forms, or copies of them, is not permitted.1
Once the inspection period has passed, the home address forms are not open to inspection.
Home address forms must be kept securely stored for a period of 35 working days after the result has been declared. They must be securely destroyed on the next working day after the 35-day period. However, if an election petition relating to the election is presented within the 35 working days, the home address forms must be kept securely until the conclusion of the petition proceedings (including any appeal from such proceedings). They must then be securely destroyed as soon as is practicable following the conclusion of the proceedings or appeal.