Keeping election material
152 Keeping election material
The Electoral Commissioner shall preserve and hold in custody all such ballot papers and other documents forwarded by the returning officers under the provisions of this Part until —
in the case of a Council election other than a general election for the Council, the election concerned can be no longer questioned; or
in the case of a general election for the Council, the members elected at the next succeeding general election for the Council become entitled to sit and vote,
when such ballot papers and other documents shall be destroyed.
Note for this subsection:
Subsection (1)(b) is subject to section 146I(5)(b).
If the Electoral Commissioner has consented to the use, for the purposes of research or analysis, of any ballot papers or other documents that are liable to be destroyed under subsection (1), then the Electoral Commissioner may defer their destruction until the conclusion of that research or analysis.
[Section 152 amended: No. 40 of 1987 s. 75; No. 35 of 2012 s. 24; No. 20 of 2021 s. 80; No. 30 of 2023 s. 103.]
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