sec.41APrescribed procedures for counting of absentee votes

### sec.41A Prescribed procedures for counting of absentee votes The commission must make procedures about how, subject to this division, absentee votes at a referendum are to be counted. The procedures must provide for— the circumstances in which absentee votes are counted at a polling booth under section 38 ; and ensuring absentee votes are counted at polling places in a way that does not compromise the secrecy of voting; and the secure delivery of sealed ballot boxes, and sealed parcels of ballot papers and declaration envelopes, containing absentee votes to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or the commission; and the arrangements for scrutineers to be present when absentee votes are counted and their roles and responsibilities. The procedures— do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and must be published on the commission’s website. In this section— absentee vote means an ordinary vote made by an elector at a polling booth that is not located in the elector’s electoral district. s 41A ins 2019 No. 31 s 101 (sec.41A-ssec.1) The commission must make procedures about how, subject to this division, absentee votes at a referendum are to be counted. (sec.41A-ssec.2) The procedures must provide for— the circumstances in which absentee votes are counted at a polling booth under section 38 ; and ensuring absentee votes are counted at polling places in a way that does not compromise the secrecy of voting; and the secure delivery of sealed ballot boxes, and sealed parcels of ballot papers and declaration envelopes, containing absentee votes to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or the commission; and the arrangements for scrutineers to be present when absentee votes are counted and their roles and responsibilities. (sec.41A-ssec.3) The procedures— do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and must be published on the commission’s website. (sec.41A-ssec.4) In this section— absentee vote means an ordinary vote made by an elector at a polling booth that is not located in the elector’s electoral district. - (a) the circumstances in which absentee votes are counted at a polling booth under section 38 ; and - (b) ensuring absentee votes are counted at polling places in a way that does not compromise the secrecy of voting; and - (c) the secure delivery of sealed ballot boxes, and sealed parcels of ballot papers and declaration envelopes, containing absentee votes to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district or the commission; and - (d) the arrangements for scrutineers to be present when absentee votes are counted and their roles and responsibilities. - (a) do not take effect until approved by a regulation; and - (b) must be tabled in the Legislative Assembly with the regulation approving the procedures; and - (c) must be published on the commission’s website.