Industrial Relations Regulation 2018

The manager for a proposed amalgamation or withdrawal must—

admit the formal votes and reject the informal votes; and

count the formal votes, and record the number for and against the proposal; and

count the informal votes.

If there is an alternative scheme for a proposed amalgamation and a ballot does not approve the proposed amalgamation, the manager must—

admit the formal votes, and reject the informal votes, for the alternative amalgamation; and

count the formal votes, and record the number for and against the alternative amalgamation; and

count the informal votes for the alternative amalgamation.

A vote is informal only if—

the ballot paper is not initialled by the manager and the manager is not satisfied the paper is authentic; or

the ballot paper is marked in a way that allows the voter to be identified; or

the ballot paper is not marked in a way that makes it clear how the voter meant to vote; or

the ballot paper does not comply with a direction given under section 98(1)(g); or

the ballot envelope from which the ballot paper was taken contained more than 1 ballot paper.