58Determination of order on ballot‑papers

58 Determination of order on ballot‑papers

Where under rule 57 a person is required to determine in accordance with this rule the order of the names of candidates on ballot‑papers to be used in an election:

(a) the person must, immediately after the declaration of nominations for the election, at the place of nomination and before all persons present at that place:

(i) prepare a list of the names in such order as he or she considers appropriate; and

(ii) read out that list; and

(iii) place a number of balls equal to the number of candidates being balls of equal size and weight and each of which is marked with a different number, in a spherical container large enough to allow all the balls in it to move about freely when it is rotated; and

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

(v) cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded since before the rotation of the container in accordance with subparagraph (iv) to take the balls, or cause the balls to come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who must call out the number on each ball as it is passed to him or her; and

(vi) as each number is called out in accordance with subparagraph (v), write the number opposite to a name in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (i) so that the number called out first is opposite to the first name in the list and the subsequent order of the numbers in the list is the order in which they are called out; and

(vii) place all the balls back in the container; and

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

(ix) cause a person who is blindfolded and has been blindfolded since before the rotation of the container in accordance with subparagraph (viii) to take the balls, or cause the balls to come, out of the container one by one and, as each ball is taken or comes out, to pass it to another person who must call out the number on each ball as it is passed to him or her; and

(x) prepare a list of the numbers called out in accordance with subparagraph (ix) set out in the order in which they were called out in accordance with subparagraph (ix); and

(xi) write on the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (x) opposite to each number the name set out opposite to that number in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (i); and

(b) the order in which the names are set out in the list prepared in accordance with subparagraph (a) (x) is the order of the names determined by the person under this rule.