Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:273:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 273 (pt 3/10)
Character Range: 546231–548945

equal to or greater than the quota on the completion of any such transfer shall be elected.
 (10) Unless all the vacancies have been filled, the surplus votes (if any) of any candidate elected under subsection (9), or elected subsequently under this subsection, shall be transferred to the continuing candidates in accordance with paragraphs (9)(a) and (b), and any continuing candidate who has received a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota on the completion of any such transfer shall be elected.
 (11) Where a continuing candidate has received a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota on the completion of a transfer under subsection (9) or (10) of the surplus votes of a particular elected candidate, no votes of any other candidate shall be transferred to the continuing candidate.
 (12) For the purposes of the application of paragraphs (9)(a) and (b) in relation to a transfer under subsection (10) or (14) of the surplus votes of an elected candidate, each ballot paper of the elected candidate that was obtained by the candidate on a transfer under this section shall be dealt with as if any vote it expressed for the elected candidate were a first preference vote, as if the name of any other candidate previously elected or excluded had not been on the ballot paper and as if the numbers indicating subsequent preferences had been altered accordingly.
 (13) Where, after the counting of first preference votes or the transfer of surplus votes (if any) of elected candidates, no candidate has, or fewer than the number of candidates required to be elected have, received a number of votes equal to the quota:
 (a) the candidate who stands lowest in the poll must be excluded; or
 (b) if a bulk exclusion of candidates may be effected under subsection (13A), those candidates must be excluded;
and the ballot papers of the excluded candidate or candidates must be distributed in accordance with subsection (13AA).
 (13AA) Where a candidate is, or candidates are, excluded in accordance with this section, the ballot papers of the excluded candidate or candidates must be transferred as follows:
 (a) the total number of ballot papers:
 (i) expressing a first preference for an excluded candidate; or
 (ii) received by an excluded candidate on distribution from another excluded candidate at a transfer value of 1 vote;
  being ballot papers expressing the next available preference for a particular continuing candidate must be transferred at a transfer value of 1 vote to the continuing candidate and added to the number of votes of the continuing candidate;
 (b) the total number (if any) of other ballot papers obtained by an excluded candidate or the excluded candidates, as