Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:273:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 273 (pt 4/10)
Character Range: 548712–551387

transfer value of 1 vote to the continuing candidate and added to the number of votes of the continuing candidate;
 (b) the total number (if any) of other ballot papers obtained by an excluded candidate or the excluded candidates, as the case may be, must be transferred beginning with the ballot papers received by that candidate or those candidates at the highest transfer value and ending with the ballot papers received at the lowest transfer value, as follows:
 (i) the total number of ballot papers received by the excluded candidate or candidates, as the case may be, at a particular transfer value and expressing the next available preference for a particular continuing candidate must be multiplied by that transfer value;
 (ii) the number so obtained (disregarding any fraction) must be added to the number of votes of the continuing candidate;
 (iii) all those ballot papers must be transferred to the continuing candidate.
 (13A) The procedure for a bulk exclusion, and the circumstances in which such an exclusion may be made, are as follows:
 (a) a continuing candidate (in this subsection called Candidate A) shall be identified, if possible, who, of the continuing candidates who each have a number of notional votes equal to or greater than the vacancy shortfall, stands lower or lowest in the poll;
 (b) a continuing candidate (in this subsection called Candidate B) shall be identified, if possible, who:
 (i) stands lower in the poll than Candidate A, or if Candidate A cannot be identified, has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the vacancy shortfall;
 (ii) has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the number of votes of the candidate standing immediately higher than him or her in the poll; and
 (iii) if 2 or more candidates satisfy subparagraphs (i) and (ii)—is the candidate who of those candidates stands higher or highest in the poll;
 (c) in a case where Candidate B has been identified and has a number of notional votes fewer than the leading shortfall—Candidate B and any other continuing candidates who stand lower in the poll than that candidate may be excluded in a bulk exclusion; and
 (d) in a case where Candidate B has been identified and has a number of notional votes equal to or greater than the leading shortfall:
 (i) a continuing candidate (in this subsection called Candidate C) shall be identified who:
 (A) has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the leading shortfall; and
 (B) if 2 or more candidates satisfy sub‑subparagraph (A)—is the candidate who of those candidates stands higher or highest in the poll; and
 (ii) Candidate C and all other continuing candidates who stand lower in the poll