Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:schedule:4:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 3/19)
Character Range: 314893–317436

DRO is satisfied that more than one envelope that meets the requirements of paragraph 6 purports to contain a declaration vote by the same elector, the DRO must:
 (a) treat only one of the envelopes, as selected by the DRO, as meeting the requirements of paragraph 6; and
 (b) exclude from further scrutiny the ballot papers contained in the other envelope or envelopes, without opening the envelope or envelopes; and
 (c) seal up in a parcel the envelope or envelopes excluded from further scrutiny by subparagraph (b); and
 (d) write on the parcel a description of its contents, the name of the Division and the date of the commencement of the preliminary scrutiny.
In applying subparagraph (a), the DRO should, to the extent that it is possible, select the envelope that was received first.
 6B. Paragraphs 19 and 20 do not apply to envelopes excluded from further scrutiny because of subparagraph 6A(b).
 7. A vote marked on a postal ballot paper must be taken not to have been recorded prior to the close of voting if the date referred to in paragraph 65(1)(c) in relation to the postal vote certificate is a date after voting day.
 7A. A vote marked on a postal ballot paper must be taken not to have been recorded prior to the close of voting if:
 (a) subsection 65(1A) applies in relation to the vote; and
 (b) the date referred to in paragraph 65(1A)(a) is a date after voting day.
 7B. Paragraphs 7 and 7A do not apply to a vote marked on a postal ballot paper if:
 (a) the envelope purporting to contain the postal ballot paper is endorsed with the date and time of receipt under paragraph 67(2)(c); and
 (b) the date and time is before the close of voting.
 8. An envelope purporting to contain an absent vote ballot paper, a provisional vote ballot paper or a pre‑poll vote ballot paper shall not be regarded as failing to meet the requirements of paragraph 6 only because the declaration or certificate, as the case requires, is not witnessed if the voter's name appears on a record made under subsection 34(2) or section 73F, as the case requires, or, if neither of those requirements is met, if the DRO is satisfied that the ballot paper was properly issued.
 9. The DRO shall seal up in a parcel the envelopes that do not meet the requirements of paragraph 6 and shall write on the parcel a description of its contents, the name of the Division and the date of commencement of the preliminary scrutiny.
 10. The DRO must divide the envelopes that meet the requirements of paragraph 6 into groups as follows:
 (a) in one group: