New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY BY-LAW 2005 - REG 39

39 Procedure on close of ballot

When the ballot is closed, and not before, the returning officer must, in the presence of those scrutineers who choose to be present:

(a) open all the envelopes addressed to the returning officer, and

(b) confirm that each declaration of identity and entitlement to vote has been signed by an eligible voter, and

(c) separate those declarations from the envelopes containing the ballot papers, and

(d) open all the envelopes containing ballot papers and take out the ballot papers, and

(e) count the votes, and determine the result of the ballot, in the manner referred to in clause 41.