Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 2) 1997 (NO. 91 OF 1997) - SECT 29

29. Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of clause 7 the following subclause:

“(4) Where—

        (a)     a person becomes the relevant candidate by virtue of subparagraph (3) (c) (ii);

        (b)     the ballot papers are recounted in accordance with section 187; and

        (c)     the same candidates would, but for this subclause, become the contemporary candidates once again by virtue of that subparagraph;

the person shall be taken to be the relevant candidate for the purposes of subclause (2) in the recounting of those ballot papers.”.