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Paragraph 33 Sealing up of ballot papers

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

On the completion of the counting, the returning officer shall seal up in separate packets the counted and rejected ballot papers, including ballot papers rejected in part.

(2)

The returning officer shall not open the sealed packets of tendered ballot papers or of counterfoils or of marked copies of the register of electors.