946GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, W.A. [28 February, 1964.

946 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, W.A. [28 February, 1964. (4) The procedure following the distribution provided by subregulation. (3) of this regulation shall be similar to that obtaining for the election of the first member. 18. (1) Where the right of a person to vote is not established, or the counterfoil is not signed by the elector and by a witness, the returning officer shall replace the counterfoil and the envelope marked "ballot paper" in the envelope in which they were received and endorse the latter envelope, "rejected", and set aside for safe keeping together with any others that may have been rejected. (2) A ballot paper is informal, if (a) it does not bear the initials of the returning officer or a person authorised by him to initial ballot papers; (b) the voter has not marked it as prescribed by these regulations; or (c) it is not marked. 19. (1) At any time before the publication of the result of an election, as prescribed by these regulations, the returning officer may, on the written request of a candidate setting out the reasons for the request, or of his own motion, make a recount of the ballot papers. (2) Where the returning officer refuses the request of a candidate to make a recount of ballot papers, the candidate may, prior to the publication of the result of the election, appeal in writing to the Minister to direct a recount and the Minister may allow or dismiss the appeal. (3) Where the Minister allows an appeal under this regulation, he shall direct the returning officer to make a recount and the returning officer shall comply with that direction. 20. Where on any count two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes and one of them must be declared defeated, the returning officer shall decide, by lot, which of them is defeated. 21. Any dispute arising out of the conduct of an election shall be referred by the returning officer to the Minister and the decision of the Minister in that regard shall be final and conclusive. 22. (1) On completion of the scrutiny and count of votes, the returning officer shall enclose in one packet all ballot papers that were admitted to the count, in another packet all counterfoils relating to those ballot papers and in a third packet all rejected votes; and, thereupon, seal the several packets and indorse on each of them the date of the election and the description and number of the contents and sign the indorsement. (2) The returning officer shall hold the sealed packets referred to in subregulation (1) of this regulation in his custody together with all other documents used at, or in connection with, an election, until the election may no longer be questioned when the packets and documents shall be destroyed. 23. The returning officer shall prepare and forward to the Minister a statement showing the result of each election and the name or names of the candidate or candidates elected, and shall cause the result of the election to be notified in the Government Gazette and in a daily newspaper circulating in the control area. 24. Any fees payable pursuant to these regulations and any expenses incurred by the returning officer for printing, publication or postage or other- wise in connection with an election shall be paid out of the Taxi Control Fund. 25. Every person who commits an offence against these regulations is liable to a penalty of twenty pounds. Form 1. (Reg. 5.) NOTICE OF ELECTION. NOTICE is hereby given that an election of member (s) of the Taxi Control Board, under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section 5 of the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and Control) Act, 1963, will take place at the