Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:213:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 213 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 466459–468881

213  Determination of order of names
 (1) Where under section 210 or 212 a person is required to determine in accordance with this section the order of the names of candidates or of groups in ballot papers to be used in an election:
 (a) the person shall, at the declaration time for the election, at the place of nomination under section 174 for the election and before all persons present at that place:
 (i) prepare a list of the names or groups, as the case may be, in such order as the person considers appropriate;
 (ii) read out that list;
 (iii) place a number of balls equal to the number of candidates or groups, as the case may be, being balls of equal size and weight and each of which is marked with a different number, in a spherical container large enough to allow all the balls in it to move about freely when it is rotated;
 (iv) rotate the container and permit any other person present who wishes to do so to rotate the container;
 (v) cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded since before the rotation of the container in accordance with subparagraph (iv) to take the balls, or cause the balls to come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who shall call out the number on the ball;
 (vi) as each number is called out in accordance with subparagraph (v), write the number opposite to a name or group, as the case may be, in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (i) so that the number called out first is opposite to the first name or group, as the case may be, in the list and the subsequent order of the numbers in the list is the order in which they are called out;
 (vii) place all the balls back in the container;
 (viii) rotate the container and permit any other person present who wishes to do so to rotate the container;
 (ix) cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded since before the rotation of the container in accordance with subparagraph (viii) to take the balls, or cause the balls to come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who shall call out the number on the ball;
 (x) prepare a list of the numbers called out in accordance with subparagraph (ix) set out in the order in which they were called out in accordance with subparagraph (ix); and
 (xi) write on the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph