Div 8Votes of Persons whose Names are not on Certified List of Voters or have been struck out of Certified List.

Division 8—Votes of Persons whose Names are not on Certified List of Voters or have been struck out of Certified List. Declarations under Section 121 of Act. Sec. 121. 70. (1) The declaration to be made by a person claiming to vote pursuant to Section 121 of the Act on the ground that his name has been omitted from, or struck out of, the Certified List of Voters owing to an error of an officer or a mistake of fact shall be in accordance with Form 31. (2) The declaration may be printed on the back of 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. Record to be made by Presiding Officer. 71\. 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 121 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. 72\. 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 121 of the Act, shall take the following action:— (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 the envelopes in a parcel addressed to his Divisional Returning Officer, indorse on the parcel the total number of envelopes contained therein, and add his signature and the date; (c) place the parcel in an outer cover, fully addressed to his Divisional Returning Officer, fasten and seal the cover, and forthwith transmit the package by registered post to his Divisional Returning Officer; (d) immediately advise, by telegraph or by such other expeditious means as may be directed, his Divisional Returning Officer of the total number of such envelopes so forwarded to him. Scrutiny of votes cast under Section 121 of Act. Sec. 121. 73\. The provisions of Regulations 57 to 67 inclusive shall apply as nearly as practicable to the receipt, scrutiny, parcelling, and preservation of ballot-papers and envelopes bearing declarations used for the purposes of voting under Section 121 of the Act: Provided that for the purpose of the scrutiny of ballot-papers and envelopes bearing declarations used for the purposes of voting under section 121 of the Act, any reference in these regulations to a ballot-paper, an absent voter’s ballot-paper, an absent voter’s declaration, or an absent voter’s ballot-box, shall be read as a reference to a ballot-paper, declaration, or ballot-box, as the case requires, used for the purposes of voting under section 121 of the Act, or for the receipt and scrutiny of votes cast under that section.