Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105:schedule:2:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 3/7)
Character Range: 245223–247899

the case may be, at a particular transfer value and expressing the next available preference for a particular continuing candidate shall be multiplied by that transfer value;
 (ii) the number so obtained (disregarding any fraction) shall be added to the number of votes of the continuing candidate;
 (iii) all those ballot papers shall be transferred to the continuing candidate.
9. (1) The procedure for a bulk exclusion, and the circumstances in which such an exclusion may be made, are as provided by this clause.
 (2) A continuing candidate (in this clause called Candidate A) shall be identified, if possible, who, of the continuing candidates who each have a number of notional votes equal to or greater than the vacancy shortfall, stands lower or lowest in the poll.
 (3) A continuing candidate (in this clause called Candidate B) shall be identified, if possible, who:
 (a) stands lower in the poll than Candidate A, or if Candidate A cannot be identified, has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the vacancy shortfall;
 (b) has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the number of votes of the candidate standing immediately higher than him or her in the poll; and
 (c) if 2 or more candidates satisfy paragraphs (a) and (b)—is the candidate who of those candidates stands higher or highest in the poll.
 (4) In a case where Candidate B has been identified and has a number of notional votes fewer than the leading shortfall, Candidate B and any other continuing candidates who stand lower in the poll than that candidate may be excluded in a bulk exclusion.
 (5) In a case where Candidate B has been identified and has a number of notional votes equal to or greater than the leading shortfall:
 (a) a continuing candidate (in this clause called Candidate C) shall be identified who:
 (i) has a number of notional votes that is fewer than the leading shortfall; and
 (ii) if 2 or more candidates satisfy subparagraph (i)—is the candidate who of those candidates stands higher or highest in the poll; and
 (b) Candidate C and all other continuing candidates who stand lower in the poll than that candidate may be excluded in a bulk exclusion.
10.  Where, apart from this clause, the number of continuing candidates after a bulk exclusion under clause 9 would be fewer than the number of remaining unfilled vacancies, clause 9 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.
11.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Schedule (other than clause 16), where a candidate or candidates has