The mayor of The Hague or an official designated by him for this purpose shall forward by diplomatic post, as soon as possible, all the requests that have been granted from persons who have their actual place of residence in a country as referred to in section M 13 or who will be residing in such a country on polling day to the head of the Dutch diplomatic or consular mission designated pursuant to section M 13, subsection 1 in the country in question, to the representative of the Netherlands in Aruba, Curaçao or St Maarten, or to the senior Dutch officer in the deployment area of the military mission designated pursuant to section M 13, subsection 4 .