Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 21/40)
Character Range: 78102–80707

public notice of the substituted place, day or time; and
          (b) inform the Returning Officer.

       (8) Any failure by a team to make a visit in accordance with this rule does not invalidate the result of the election.

       (9) At any time when a team is at a booth for the purposes of taking votes under this rule in an election:
          (a) the team must have:
             (i) ballot‑boxes, ballot‑papers and such other things as are necessary for the votes of voters to be taken at the booth; and
             (ii) the 'how‑to‑vote' cards (if any) supplied to it by the candidates; and
          (b) every voter at the booth is entitled to have his or her vote taken under this rule; and
          (c) for purposes of, and in connection with, the taking of votes under this rule:
             (i) the booth is to be taken to be a polling place; and
             (ii) the building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used by the leader for the purposes of taking votes under this rule is to be taken to be a polling booth at that polling place; and
             (iii) the leader is to be taken to be the presiding officer at that polling booth; and
          (d) so far as is practicable, a vote under this rule is to be taken as if it were taken under the other provisions (not being rule 77) of these Rules (including such of those other provisions as relate to absent voting); and
          (e) rule 154 applies as if the reference to polling daywere a reference to the time of the visit.

       (10) Paragraph 74 (1) (a) does not apply to a leader after the first visit made by him or her for the purposes of this rule.

       (11) At the end of the last visit made by a leader for this rule, he or she must, as soon as practicable and in the presence of a member of his or her team and any scrutineers who may be in attendance:
          (a) if the Returning Officer has directed the leader to do so:
             (i) open each ballot‑box used by him or her for this rule; and
             (ii) place the contents in a sealed parcel; and
             (iii) write on the parcel a description of its contents; and
             (iv) send the parcel to the Returning Officer; or
          (b) in any other case — publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of each ballot‑box and send each sealed ballot‑box, together with the voter cards corresponding to the envelopes in those ballot‑boxes, to the Returning Officer.

       (12) Where a voter has voted under this rule in an election, any postal ballot‑paper received by the Returning Officer that is, or that purports to be, a postal