Div 8Votes Recorded in Pursuance of Sections 91a, 121, and 121a of the Act.

Division 8.—Votes Recorded in Pursuance of Sections 91a, 121, and 121a of the Act.

Declarations under Section 91a, 121, or 121a of Act.

70. (1) The declaration to be made by a person claiming to vote pursuant to section 121 of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 33, and the declaration to be made by a person claiming to vote under the provisions of section 91a or section 121a shall be in accordance with Form 34.

(2) The declaration may be printed on an envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in respect of which the elector claims to vote, or may be attached by gum or other adhesive substance to such envelope.

Ballot-paper under section 91a, 121, or 121a of Act.

71. The ballot-paper to be used by a person claiming to vote pursuant to section 91a, 121, or 121a of the Act may be in accordance with the form prescribed to be used by an elector voting as an absent voter. The words ‘Absent Vote’ appearing on such ballot-paper may be struck out and the words ‘Section 91a,’ ‘Section 121’ or ‘Section 121a,’ as the case requires, substituted therefor.

[Electoral and Referendum Regulations, 72—76]

Record to be made by Presiding Officer.

72. The Presiding Officer shall make a record of the name and other particulars of each person who votes at his polling booth under the provisions of section 91a, 121, or 121a of the Act, and, at the close of the poll, shall forward the record, duly certified, under seal, to the Assistant Returning Officer.

Action by Assistant Returning Officer.

73. The Assistant Returning Officer, on receipt from a Presiding Officer of a ballot-box containing ballot-papers enclosed in envelopes bearing declarations of persons who have voted pursuant to section 91a, 121, or 121a of the Act, shall take the following action in respect of all such envelopes:—

(a) check the number of such envelopes with the number appearing in the Presiding Officer’s record, preserve a note thereof, and report any discrepancy to his Divisional Returning Officer;

(b) place in a separate outer envelope (or parcel) all the envelopes relating to the same Division, endorse on the outer envelope (or parcel) the number of such envelopes so placed therein, fasten and seal the outer envelope (or parcel), address it to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division named in the electors’ declarations, and forthwith transmit it by registered post to that Divisional Returning Officer;

(c) immediately advise, by telegraph or by such other expeditious means as may be directed, each Divisional Returning Offices concerned of the total number of such envelopes so forwarded to him.