Delivery of covering envelopes to central municipal election board 

The election official and the electoral commission of a general advance polling station in Finland shall ensure that the covering envelopes addressed to the municipality’s own central electoral committee are without delay delivered to the central electoral committee in the manner determined by it, and that the covering envelopes addressed to the central electoral committees of other municipalities are without delay delivered to these central electoral committees by mail or by another reliable means. The election official and the electoral commission shall obtain a receipt from the person to whom the covering envelopes are handed over stating that he or she has received the covering envelopes. (247/2002)

The election official of a Finnish ship shall without delay deliver the covering envelopes to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs or to a Finnish diplomatic mission in the country where the ship is or where it first arrives. The election official in a Finnish diplomatic mission, or, if the mission does not serve as an advance polling station, the Head of Mission, shall ensure that the covering envelopes that have been given there or that have arrived there are delivered to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in a manner determined by it. The Ministry shall ensure that the covering envelopes are delivered without delay to the central electoral committee of the municipality in question, complying with the provisions of section 62, subsection 1, where applicable.