46B.
Adjournment of count at counting station in respect of a single constituency
(1) If at any time during the counting of the votes in
respect of an ordinary election or a by-election, as the case may be, ("relevant election") the returning officer appointed
for a constituency or for a District within which a
constituency is situated, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the count or any re-count, as the case may be, ("original count") at the counting station designated in respect of the
constituency
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(a) is being interrupted, obstructed, disrupted,
undermined or seriously affected by riot,
violence, typhoon or some other climatic
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conditions of a serious nature of by any other
like cause; or
(b) is likely to be disrupted, undermined or
seriously affected by the occurrence of a
typhoon or some other climatic conditions of a
serious nature, of by some other natural
emergency or catastrophe that has already arisen
or is likely to arise during that count at that
counting station,
he may, by notice published in the Gazette or, if such
publication is not practicable in the circumstances, by the
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