(4) Where any original count is adjourned at any counting station the counting of the votes in respect of an adjourned count shall commence on the day to which the original count is adjourned at the times or times determined for the original date or, if that time or those times are not practicable or convenient, at such other time or times as the registration officer may determine.
(5) The returning officer at any counting station in respect of which an original count has been adjourned by a declaration of the Governor under subregulation (1) shall, as soon as practicable after the declaration has come to his. knowledge and in the presence of such persons as may be present in the counting station
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cease the original count; and
deposit the opened and unopened ballot boxes together with the ballot papers (whether counted or not), the unused ballot papers, the spoilt
ballot papers, any tendered ballot papers, any ballot paper accounts and any verifications
thereof and any other relevant election
materials in a safe place within the confines of
the counting station or, in the absence of any
such safe place within those confines, in a safe place within the confines of a police station or
some other public building or, in the absence of
any such police station or public building, in the confines of some other secure building
(including a residential building) in the
vicinity of the counting station.
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