Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:273:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 273 (pt 5/10)
Character Range: 551142–553897

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 (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 than that candidate may be excluded in a bulk exclusion.
 (13B) Where, apart from this subsection, the number of continuing candidates after a bulk exclusion under subsection (13A) would be fewer than the number of remaining unfilled vacancies, subsection (13A) shall operate to exclude only the number of candidates, beginning with the candidate who stands lowest in the poll, that would leave sufficient continuing candidates to fill the remaining unfilled vacancies.
 (13C) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section (other than subsection (18)), where a candidate or candidates has or have been elected and there are surplus votes as a result of that election, paragraphs (13A)(a), (b), (c) and (d) may be applied as if references in those paragraphs to notional votes were references to adjusted notional votes.
 (14) Any continuing candidate who has received a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota on the completion of a transfer under subsection (13) or (15) of ballot papers of an excluded candidate or candidates, as the case may be, shall be elected, and, unless all the vacancies have been filled, the surplus votes (if any) of the candidate so elected shall be transferred in accordance with paragraphs (9)(a) and (b), except that, where the candidate so elected is elected before all the ballot papers of the excluded candidate or candidates, as the case may be, have been transferred, the surplus votes (if any) of the candidate so elected shall not be transferred until the remaining ballot papers of the excluded candidate or candidates, as the case may be, have been transferred in accordance with paragraphs (13AA)(a) and (b) to continuing candidates.
 (15) Subject to subsection (17) where, after the transfer of all of the ballot papers of an excluded candidate or the excluded candidates, as the case may be, no continuing candidate has received a number of votes greater than the quota:
 (a) the continuing candidate who stands lowest in the poll must be excluded; or
 (b) if a bulk exclusion of candidates may be effected under subsection (13A), those candidates must be excluded;
and the ballot papers of the excluded candidate or candidates must be transferred in accordance with subsection (13AA).
 (16) Where a candidate is elected during a transfer of ballot papers under subsection (13) or (15), no other ballot papers of an excluded candidate or candidates, as the case may be, shall be transferred to the candidate so elected.
 (17) In respect of the last