New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

BANANA INDUSTRY REGULATION 2003 - REG 19

19 Scrutiny of outer envelopes

(1) The returning officer must reject (without opening it) any outer envelope purporting to contain a ballot-paper if the outer envelope is not received before the close of the poll or is received unsealed.

(2) The returning officer must examine the name on the back of each remaining outer envelope and, without opening the outer envelope:

(a) must provisionally accept any ballot-paper in the outer envelope and draw a line through the name on the final list for the poll that corresponds to the name on the back of the outer envelope, if satisfied that a person of that name is included in the list, or

(b) must reject any ballot-paper in the outer envelope, if not so satisfied or if a name, address or signature does not appear on the back of the outer envelope.

(3) The returning officer may reject a ballot-paper without opening the outer envelope if, after making such inquiries as the returning officer thinks fit:

(a) the returning officer is unable to identify the signature on the back of the outer envelope, or

(b) it appears to the returning officer that the signature on the back of the outer envelope is not the signature of the person whose name and address appear on the back of the outer envelope.