CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 114

3rd Sched. (Part III)

are counted any counting agent whose name and address

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has not been so given, notwithstanding that his appointment

may be otherwise valid, and any notice required to be given

to a counting agent by the returning officer may be

delivered at or sent by post to the address stated in the

notice of appointment.

(3) If a counting agent dies, or becomes incapable

of acting, the candidate may appoint another counting agent

in his place, and shall forthwith give to the returning

officer notice in writing of the name and address of the

counting agent so appointed.

The returning officer shall make arrangements for

counting the votes in the presence of the counting agents

as soon as practicable after the close of the poll, and

shall give to the agents notice in writing of the time and

place at which he will begin to count the votes.

The count.

30. Except with the consent of the returning officer,

no person other than the returning officer, the persons

appointed to assist him, and the candidates and their

counting agents may be present at the counting of the votes.

31. Before the returning officer proceeds to count the

votes, he shall, in the presence of the counting agents,

open each ballot box and, taking out the ballot papers

therein, shall count and record the number thereof, and

then mix together the whole of the papers contained in the

ballot boxes.

32. The returning officer, while counting and recording

the number of ballot papers and counting the votes, shall

keep the ballot papers with their faces upwards, and take

all proper precautions for preventing any person from

seeing the numbers printed on the back of the papers.

33. The returning officer shall, so far as practicable,

proceed continuously with counting the votes, allowing only

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