You must, for all election addresses delivered to you by the deadline you have given, consider if each of them complies with the legal requirements. You should offer election agents the opportunity to have their candidate’s election address checked at an early stage so that any issues can be identified and rectified before the deadline.1
If any election address does not comply, you must return it to the candidate’s election agent, specifying each respect in which you consider that it does not comply. You may make any minor corrections which you reasonably consider necessary to enable the election address to comply with the requirements.
The candidate’s election agent may re-submit the election address at any time before the deadline you have given for delivery of the election address.
Once you are satisfied that an election address complies with the relevant requirements, you must send the election address to the Minister together with a statement that you are so satisfied.
You must notify the candidate of the date on which their election address was sent to the Minister and of any minor corrections which you have made.
In practice, the statement and declaration should be submitted to the Minister as soon as practicable to allow publication on the website by the Minister after 4pm on the nineteenth working day before the poll.
The deadline for submission of the election addresses by PAROs to the Minister is midnight on the eighteenth calendar day before the poll.
The Minister may allow an election address to be submitted after that time but only if they are satisfied that there is good reason for its late delivery. You should therefore include the reasons for submitting any late election address for the Minister’s consideration.2