You must provide each signing place with as many signing sheets as, in your opinion, may be necessary.1
When allocating signing sheets to signing places, ensure that the numbers on the sheets allocated to each signing place run consecutively in order to avoid any problems with completing the corresponding number list or daily signing sheet accounts.
Tendered signing sheets
Tendered signing sheets must also be supplied.2
You should make it clear to petition clerks that these should only be issued in prescribed circumstances. The limited circumstances under which tendered signing sheets are the same as those for issuing tendered ballot papers at an election. Appendix 5b of the polling station handbook sets out the circumstances in which tendered ballot papers should be issued.
Tendered signing sheets must be a different colour. Completed tendered signing sheets must not be put in the ballot box. The petition clerk must endorse a tendered signing sheet with the name of the person signing the petition and that person’s number in the register and set it aside in a separate packet.