Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) ACT 1997 No. 128 of 1997 - SECT 59

(1) Where for the purposes of section 55 a person is required to determine
under this section the order of the names of candidates or of *groups in the
*list of candidates to be used in an election:

   (a)  the person must, 24 hours after the *hour of nomination, at the

*place of nomination or at another place specified in writing by the AEO for
the purpose of this section, and before all persons present at that place:

        (i)    prepare a list of the names or groups, as the case may be, in
               such order as the person considers appropriate; and

        (ii)   read out that list; and

        (iii)  place a number of balls equal to the number of candidates or
               groups, as the case may be, being balls of equal size and
               weight and each of which is marked with a different number, in
               a spherical container large enough to allow all the balls in it
               to move about freely when it is rotated; and

        (iv)   rotate the container and permit any other person present who
               wishes to do so to rotate the container; and

        (v)    cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded
               since before the rotation of the container in accordance with
               subparagraph (iv) to take the balls, or cause the balls to
               come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is
               taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who must call
               out the number on the ball; and

        (vi)   as each number is called out in accordance with subparagraph
               (v), write the number opposite to a name or group, as the case
               may be, in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph
               (i) so that the number called out first is opposite the first
               name or group in the list and the subsequent order of the
               numbers in the list is the order in which they are called out;
               and

        (vii)  place all the balls back in the container; and

        (viii) rotate the container and permit any other person present who
               wishes to do so to rotate the container; and

        (ix)   cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded
               since before the rotation of the container in accordance with
               subparagraph (viii) to take the balls, or cause the balls to
               come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is
               taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who must call
               out the number on the ball; and

        (x)    prepare a list of the numbers called out in accordance with
               subparagraph (ix) set out in the order in which they were
               called out in accordance with subparagraph (ix); and

        (xi)   write on the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (x)
               opposite each number the name or group, as the case may be, set
               out opposite to that number in the list prepared in accordance
               with subparagraph (i); and

   (b)  the order in which the names or groups, as the case may be, are set
        out in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (a)(x) is the
        order of the names or groups determined by the person under this
        section.

(2) A reference in subparagraph (1)(a)(v) or (ix) to a person is a reference
to a person employed by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory or by an
authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.