Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p17
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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 17/40)
Character Range: 68595–71172

ballot‑box, a ballot‑paper and such other things as are necessary to enable the vote of the patient to be taken.

       (5) These Rules apply in relation to the taking of the vote of the patient as if, during the time when, for the purpose of enabling the vote of the patient to be taken, the electoral visitor is in the same room, ward or other place as the patient, that room, ward or other place were a part of a polling booth at a polling place.

       (6) A visit or visits to a special hospital in accordance with subrule (4) must be made at such time or times between 8.00am and 6.00pm and on such day or days, being any of the 5 days preceding polling day, polling day, or a day to which the polling is adjourned, as are determined by the Returning Officer in relation to the special hospital.

       (7) At any time when an electoral visitor is visiting a special hospital for the purposes of this rule, the special hospital is, for the purposes of, and in connection with, the taking of votes under this rule, deemed to be a polling booth at a polling place and the electoral visitor is, for those purposes, deemed to be the presiding officer at that booth.

       (8) Paragraph 74 (1) (a) does not apply to an electoral visitor after the first visit made by him or her for the purposes of this rule.

       (9) At the end of the last visit made by an electoral visitor for this rule, he or she must, as soon as practicable and in the presence of a polling official and any scrutineers who may be in attendance:
          (a) if the Returning Officer has directed the electoral visitor to do so:
             (i) open each ballot‑box used by him or her for this rule; and
             (ii) place the contents in a sealed parcel; and
             (iii) write on the parcel a description of its contents; and
             (iv) send the parcel to the Returning Officer; or
          (b) in any other case — publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of each ballot‑box and send each sealed ballot‑box, together with the voter cards corresponding to the envelopes in the ballot‑boxes, to the Returning Officer.

      78  Provisions related to rule 77

       (1) Notwithstanding any arrangement in force under rule 77, a visit under that rule to a patient in a hospital must not be made if the presiding officer, electoral visitor or liaison officer, as the case may be, is informed by a registered medical practitioner or a member of the staff of the hospital that such a visit is forbidden, on medical grounds, by a registered medical practitioner.

       (2)