Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) ACT 1997 No. 128 of 1997 - SECT 104

(1) If a scrutineer objects to a ballot-paper as being informal, the
officer conducting the *scrutiny must mark the ballot-paper "admitted"
or "rejected" according to the officer's decision to admit or reject the
ballot-paper.

(2) Nothing in this section prevents the officer conducting the

*scrutiny from rejecting any ballot-paper as being informal although it is not
objected to.