119Request for recount

119 Request for recount

(1) At any time before notification of the result of the poll for an election is given under regulation 121, the returning officer—

(a) on the returning officer's own initiative—may conduct a recount of any ballot‑papers received in the election; or

(b) if a candidate makes a request, either orally or in writing, for a recount of any ballot‑papers received in the election and gives reasons for the request—must conduct a recount of the ballot‑papers.

(2) In conducting a recount, the returning officer—

(a) in the case of a poll by secret ballot—has the same powers for the purposes of the recount as the returning officer had in the count; and

(b) in any other case—may make any reasonable decision in respect of the allowance and admission, or disallowance and rejection, of a vote cast in the poll.