New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 125A

125A Parcels of postal, pre-poll or absent ballot papers etc

(1) The returning officer for each electoral district shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the poll, make up and seal separate parcels, each of which contains only:

(a) envelopes from which any ballot papers of a single class have been taken,

(b) unopened envelopes containing ballot papers of that single class,

(c) ballot papers, referred to in paragraph (a), of a single class allowed as formal, and

(d) ballot papers, referred to in paragraph (a), of a single class disallowed or rejected as informal,

received by him or her in connection with the election conducted in the electoral district for which he or she is the returning officer.

(2) A reference in subsection (1) to ballot papers of a single class is, in relation to a poll for a district, a reference to ballot papers used by electors voting in that district by virtue of section 106 or of Division 9, 10, 11A or 12.

(3) Section 127 applies to parcels referred to in subsection (1) as if they were parcels of marked and unmarked ballot papers referred to in that section.