Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 22/40)
Character Range: 80459–83208

corresponding to the envelopes in those ballot‑boxes, to the Returning Officer.

       (12) Where a voter has voted under this rule in an election, any postal ballot‑paper received by the Returning Officer that is, or that purports to be, a postal ballot‑paper of the voter must not be admitted in the scrutiny in relation to the election.

      81  Forwarding of votes

       (1) A presiding officer must:
          (a) place in a parcel all the envelopes which purport to contain the ballot‑papers of those voter s who recorded votes at the polling place and all the envelopes handed in by persons who have cast postal votes, seal up the parcel and forthwith deliver it, or cause it to be delivered, to the Returning Officer; and
          (b) forward to the Returning Officer advice in writing of the total number of envelopes enclosed in the parcel delivered or to be delivered to the Returning Officer.

       (2) The Returning Officer must:
          (a) extract the voter cards of persons who have cast absent votes from the records forwarded to him or her under rule 85 and subrules 77 (9), 79 (7) and 80 (11) and retain a copy of all such voter cards; and
          (b) extract the envelopes of persons who have cast absent votes or postal votes from the ballot‑boxes forwarded to him or her under subrules 77 (9), 79 (7) and 80 (11); and
          (c) extract the envelopes of persons who have cast absent votes or postal votes from the parcels forwarded to him or her under subrule (1); and
          (d) until they are dealt with under other provisions of these Rules, keep the voter cards and envelopes in one or more securely fastened ballot‑boxes.

       (3) The Returning Officer must:
          (a) maintain a locked and sealed ballot‑box for each ward labelled so as to identify it as a ballot‑box containing absent votes, postal votes and pre‑poll votes; and
          (b) keep in those ballot‑boxes, until the scrutiny, all envelopes purporting to contain a ballot‑paper recording an absent vote, a postal vote or a pre‑poll vote in relation to the wards, being, in the case of envelopes purporting to contain postal ballot‑papers, envelopes:
             (i) delivered to the Returning Officer before the end of the period of 6 days after the close of the poll; or
             (ii) received from a pre‑poll voting officer or a presiding officer where the envelope bearing the voter card bears evidence that it was received by the pre‑poll voting officer or presiding officer prior to the close of the poll.

       (4) Before placing in the ballot‑box maintained under subrule (3) an envelope purporting to contain a postal ballot‑paper and delivered to the Returning Officer which is received after the close of the poll