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46B.

Adjournment of count at counting station in respect of a single constituency

(1) If at any time during the counting of the votes in

respect of an ordinary election or a by-election, as the case may be, ("relevant election") the returning officer appointed

for a constituency or for a District within which a

constituency is situated, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the count or any re-count, as the case may be, ("original count") at the counting station designated in respect of the

constituency

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(a) is being interrupted, obstructed, disrupted,

undermined or seriously affected by riot,

violence, typhoon or some other climatic

open

conditions of a serious nature of by any other

like cause; or

(b) is likely to be disrupted, undermined or

seriously affected by the occurrence of a

typhoon or some other climatic conditions of a

serious nature, of by some other natural

emergency or catastrophe that has already arisen

or is likely to arise during that count at that

counting station,

he may, by notice published in the Gazette or, if such

publication is not practicable in the circumstances, by the

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