Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) An officer conducting the determination of the results of a poll must defer the counting of ballot-papers if the number of ballot-papers, other than those referred to in section 52(1) of the Act, in a ballot-box received by the officer is less than 100.
(2) The officer conducting the determination must place the ballot-papers in a locked or sealed ballot-box kept for that purpose at the place where the results of the poll are to be determined.
(3) Subject to subregulation (4), the ballot-papers are to be taken out of the ballot-box referred to in subregulation (2) and counted when the ballot-papers taken from 2 or more ballot-boxes and placed in that ballot-box exceeds 100.
(4) If no more ballot-boxes are to be received at the place where the results of a poll are to be determined, the ballot-box referred to in subregulation (2) is to be opened and the ballot papers taken out and counted.