You must check that it complies with all the legal requirements for an election address2
If it does not meet the legal requirements, you must send it back to the candidate’s agent, inviting corrections and re-submission by the deadline for submissions
If it meets the legal requirements, you must forward it on to the Minister, along with a statement stating that you are satisfied the address complies with the relevant requirements. In practice, this should be done as soon as practicable to allow publication on the website by the Minister after 4pm on the nineteenth working day before the poll. Unless special circumstances apply, the deadline for the Minister to receive an election address is midnight on the eighteenth calendar day before the poll (if the eighteenth calendar day falls on a Sunday, the deadline is extended to the seventeenth calendar day before poll). The Minister will then return to you a copy of the address as it will appear on the website. You must also inform the candidate of the date you have submitted the address and of any minor corrections made.
You must send the website version of the address to the candidate’s agent, inviting any comments and corrections by a further deadline to be set by you.3
If any comments and/or corrections are received before the deadline you have set, you must make the changes provided they are consistent with the legal requirements for addresses. You must then return the copy of the election address to the Minister as soon as practicable after your deadline.4
The legislation provides that the Minister must publish the election address on the website as soon as practicable after 4pm on the nineteenth working day before the poll.5