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Paragraph 67 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 at a contested election the constituency returning officer shall seal up in separate packets the counted and rejected ballot papers.

(2)

The constituency returning officer shall not open the sealed packets of tendered ballot papers or of counterfoils and certificates as to employment on duty on the day of the poll, or of marked copies of the register of electors and lists of proxies.