New South Wales Repealed Regulations New South Wales Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) On the close of the poll at an election each senior deputy returning officer must, in the presence of the electoral officials and scrutineers and any police officers on duty at the polling place, open the ballot-box, and have the ballot-papers scrutinised in his or her presence and under his or her supervision and must reject the informal ballot-papers.
(2) Each senior deputy returning officer is to have the envelopes containing postal votes and tendered votes placed on one side as they are taken from the ballot-box.
(3) After the scrutiny each senior deputy returning officer must have counted, in that officer’s presence and subject to that officer’s supervision, the first preferences recorded for each candidate, the number of informal, postal and tendered votes, and the number of votes shown on the list of section 305 votes (required under clause 74) as being delivered or sent to the returning officer.
(4) Then the senior deputy returning officer is to send to the returning officer returns, verified by the signatures of the senior deputy returning officer, another electoral official and any scrutineer who desires to sign the returns, stating:(a) the number of first preferences recorded for each candidate, the number of informal, postal and tendered votes and the number of votes shown on the list of section 305 votes as being delivered or sent to the returning officer, and(b) details of the numbers of ballot-papers in Form 14.