CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 111

3rd Sched. (Part III)

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(1) The declaration made by the companion

of a blind elector

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(a) shall be in the appropriate form set forth

in Part IV of this Schedule, or as near thereto

as circumstances may admit; and

(b) shall be made before the presiding officer at

the time when the elector applies to vote with

the assistance of the companion and shall

forthwith be handed to the presiding officer,

who shall attest and retain it.

(2) No fee, stamp or other payment shall be charged

in respect of the declaration.

23.

Tendered ballot papers.

If a person, representing himself to be a

particular elector named on the register, applies for a

ballot paper after another person has voted as such elector,

the applicant shall, upon satisfactorily answering the

questions set out in paragraph 16 of this Part of this

Schedule, be entitled to mark a ballot paper in the same

manner as any other elector, but the ballot paper (in this

Schedule called "a tendered ballot paper") shall be of a

colour differing from the other ballot papers, and instead

of being put into the ballot box shall be given to the

presiding officer and endorsed by him with the name of the

elector and his number in the register of electors, and set

aside in a separate packet, and shall not be counted by the

returning officer; and the name of the elector and his number

on the register together with the distinctive latter of the

polling district shall be entered on a list (in this Schedule

called "the tendered votes list").

Spoilt ballot papers.

24. An elector who has inadvertently dealt with his

ballot paper in such a manner that it cannot be conveniently

used as a ballot paper may, on delivering it to the

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