Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00135:clause:1_9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00135
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 9
Character Range: 8074–9088

9  After subsection 273(31)
Insert:
 (31A) For the purposes of paragraph (31)(c), if 3 or more continuing candidates (the tied candidates) have the same number of votes at a particular time, the tied candidates are to stand in the poll in the order determined by:
 (a) identifying each possible combination of 2 tied candidates; and
 (b) for each combination of 2 tied candidates identified under paragraph (a), working out the relative order of standing, at that time, of those 2 candidates; and
 (c) ranking all of the tied candidates such that:
 (i) the tied candidate who has a higher relative order of standing, at that time, than each other tied candidate stands highest in the poll; and
 (ii) a tied candidate who has a higher relative order of standing, at that time, than another tied candidate stands higher in the poll than that other candidate; and
 (iii) the tied candidate who does not have a higher relative order of standing, at that time, than any other tied candidate stands lowest in the poll.