Prohibition of in- spection
of hallat paper.
Production of ballot
papers. etc.
Prohibition against copying marked
register.
Destruction of ballot ppers.
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(3) Any power given to the Supreme Court by this regula tion may be exercised in Court or in Chambers,
(4) In making and carrying into effect an order under this regulation, care shall be taken that the way in which any parti- cular elector has voted shall not be disclosed, until it has been proved that he voted and his vote has been declared by a com- potent court to be invalid.
58. Except by order of the Supreme Court made under regulation 57 no person shall be allowed to inspect any ballot papers in the enstody of the registration officer or to open any scaled packet of counterfoils.
59. Where an order is made for the production by the registration officer of any document in his possession relating to any specified election, the production by the registration officer or an assistant registration officer of the said document, in such manner as may be directed by the order, shall be conclusive evidence that the document so produced relates to the specified election, and any endorsement appearing on any packet of ballot papers produced by the registration officer or his deputy shall be prima facie evidence of those papers being what they are stated to be by the endorsement. The production from proper custody of a ballot paper purporting to have been used at any election, and of a counterfoil marked with the same printed number and having a number marked thereon in writing shall be príma facia evidence that the person who voted by that ballot paper was the person who at the time of that election had affixed to his name in the register of electors at that election the same number as the number written on the counterfoil.
60. No copy shall be taken by any person at any time for any purpose whatsoever of any electoral register which has been marked at any time by any returning officer, presiding officer or other officer in the course of his duties at any election to show that votes have been recorded by any person or persons.
61. The registration officer shall retain for six months all documents relating to an election forwarded to him by the returning officer in pursuance of these regulations, and then, unless otherwise directed by an order made under regulation 37, shall cause them to be destroyed.
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PART IV.
General PROVISIONS AS TO Contested Elections,
82. The returning officer may, if he thinks fit, preside at Power of a polling station, and the provisions of these regulations relating officer to returning to a presiding officer shall apply to a returning officer so presiding act as with the necessary modifications as to things to be done by the Presiding returning officer to the presiding officer, or by the presiding officer to the returning officer.
63. (1) No returning officer, or officer appointed under these regulations, or any partner or clerk of any such officer, shall act as a polling agent or counting agent.
(2) If any returning officer, or officer appointed under these regulations, or the partner or clerk of any such officer, acts as a polling or counting agent in contravention of the provisions of this regulation, he shall be guilty of an offence and on convic- tion shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
officer.
Prohibi-
tions in regard to officers.
64. No person shall be appointed to act as an officer under Prohibi- these regulations for the purpose of an election who has been tiona
against employed by or on behalf of a candilute in or about such election. employees
of can- didates acting s nificera under these regulations.
65. A presiding officer may do, by the officers appointed to Powers of assist him, any act which he is required or authorized by these delegation
by regulations to do at a polling station except ordering the arrest, presiding exclusion or removal of any person from the polling station.
officers.
66. A candidate may himself do any act or thing which an Powers of election agent of his, if appointed, would have been authorized candidates. or required to do, or may assist his election agent in doing any such act or thing, but before acting under this regulation the candidate shall make the declaration of secrecy required to be made by agents.
67. Where in these regulations any act or thing is required Saving. or authorized to be done in the presence of the election agents of the candidates, the non-altendance of any such agent, or agents