Delivered ballot boxes and ballot paper accounts to be given into charge of relevant Returning Officer
Version Date:
12/10/2001
(1) After delivery to a central counting station-
(a) the ballot boxes and ballot paper accounts from a polling station are to be given into the charge of the Returning Officer specified for the purpose by the Chief Electoral Officer; and
(b) the sealed packets under section 61 are to be given into the charge of the Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors).
(2) If the Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors) considers that the arrangements described in subsection (1) are not practicable, that Officer may modify them.
(3) The ballot boxes, the ballot paper accounts and the sealed packets under section 61 delivered to a counting station that is not a central counting station are to be given into the charge of the Returning Officer who supervises the counting station.