Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:228:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 228 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 495233–497267

until the scrutiny, all envelopes bearing a certificate or declaration and purporting to contain a ballot paper recording a declaration vote in relation to the Division that, in accordance with subsection (5A), are received within sufficient time to be taken into account in the scrutiny.
 (5A) An envelope referred to in paragraph (5)(c) is received by a DRO within sufficient time to be taken into account in the scrutiny if it is received by the DRO within 13 days after the close of the poll (whether directly from the voter or from another DRO or a person referred to in subsection (9)).
Note: An envelope is also received within sufficient time to be taken into account in the scrutiny if it is received by a person who is authorised under section 37.
 (6) Before placing in the container maintained under subsection (5) an envelope purporting to contain a postal ballot paper and delivered to a Divisional Returning Officer which is received after the close of the poll and which does not bear evidence sufficient to satisfy the Divisional Returning Officer that the vote contained in the envelope was recorded before the close of the poll, the Divisional Returning Officer must endorse on the envelope the date of its receipt and must initial the endorsement.

Declaration votes received outside Australia to be forwarded to a specified person
 (8) An Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia must, in accordance with the written instructions of the Electoral Commissioner, deal with and forward envelopes bearing certificates or declarations, the relevant applications and the records made by the officer under paragraph 195A(2)(e) or subsection 200G(2), to such person as is specified in those instructions.
 (9) Where envelopes or records relating to a particular Division are forwarded under subsection (8) to a person other than the Divisional Returning Officer for that Division, that person must, as soon as practicable, deliver them, or cause them to be delivered, to that Divisional Returning Officer.