CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 121

3rd Sched. (Part III)

Requirement of Secrecy.

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(1) Every returning officer, and every officer

or polling agent, authorized to attend at a polling station,

shall, before the opening of the poll, or in the case of an

agent appointed after the opening of the poll, before acting

as such agent, make a declaration of secrecy in the form set

forth in Part IV of this Schedule, or in a form as near

thereto as circumstances admit; and every counting agent

authorized to attend at the counting of the votes shall, before

the counting commences, make a like declaration of secrecy.

(2) In the case of a returning officer the declaration

shall be made in the presence of a justice of the peace, and

in the case of any other officer or of an agent, the declaratio

shall be made either in the presence of a justice of the peace

or of the returning officer.

(3) Save as aforesaid, no such returning officer, officer

or agent shall be required, as such, to make any declaration

or to take any oath on the occasion of an election.

(4) Every returning officer, and every officer, polling

agent or counting agent in attendance at a polling station

or at the counting of the votes, shall maintain and aid in

maintaining secrecy of the voting.

(5) No person being a returning officer, or officer

appointed under this Part of this Schedule, or polling agent

or counting agent, shall ·

(a) except for some purpose authorized by law,

communicate before the poll is closed to any

person any information as to

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(1) the name or number on the register of any

elector who has or has not applied for a

ballot paper or voted at a polling station; or

(ii) the official mark; or

(b) ascertain or attempt to ascertain at the counting of

the votes, the number on the back of any ballot paper;

or

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