Ballot papers to be sealed in boxes before adjournment
136 Ballot papers to be sealed in boxes before adjournment
Before every adjournment of the count of the votes all ballot papers and other documents connected with that count must be placed in 1 or more ballot boxes, and the officer conducting the count must then, in the presence of such scrutineers and officers as are present, secure a ballot box or boxes with a sealing device.
A scrutineer may sign the record of the sealing device secured on the ballot box.
The officer conducting the count must also close and seal the cleft.
Before recommencing the count the sealing device must be exhibited unbroken to the scrutineers and officers.
[Section 136 amended: No. 59 of 1919 s. 5; No. 40 of 1987 s. 84; No. 30 of 2023 s. 82.]
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