20Procedure for drawing or casting lots

20 Procedure for drawing or casting lots

(1)  To draw or cast lots, a returning officer is to –

(a) make out, in respect of each candidate to be included in the draw, a slip bearing that candidate's name; and

(b) place each of the slips in a separate identical hollow opaque sphere; and

(c) place the spheres in a container sufficiently large to allow those spheres to move about freely when shaken or rotated; and

(d) shake or rotate the container and permit any other person present who wishes to do so to shake or rotate the container; and

(e) take out of the container and open one of the spheres to obtain the enclosed slip; and

(f) record the name of the candidate which appears on that slip; and

(g) repeat the process specified in paragraphs (d) , (e) and (f) until all spheres have been removed from the container.

(2)  For the purposes of subregulation (1)(f) and (g) , the names of the candidates are to be recorded in the order in which the spheres were taken out of the container.