ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 112A Certain Council ballot-papers with non-consecutive numbers to be formal

ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 112A

A ballot-paper in a Council election that—

        (a)     has, in not less than 5 of the squares printed opposite the names of the candidates, numbers in the sequence of consecutive numbers starting with the number 1; and

        (b)     would be informal by virtue of section 112(1)(d)—

is taken to be formal in relation to the preferences marked on the ballot-paper by numbers up to a break in the sequence.

S. 112B inserted by No. 2/2003 s. 38.