Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 107

107. After section 136A of the Principal Act the following sections are
inserted: Provisional scrutiny

''136B. Where a Divisional Returning Officer in a House of Representatives
election has counted all votes on ballot-papers (other than ballot-papers
referred to in paragraph 136A (b), (c) or (d)) and section 136A does not
apply, he may, if directed to do so by the Australian Electoral Officer,
proceed, in a manner specified in the directions, with a scrutiny of second
and later preferences shown on the ballot-papers. Scrutiny for information

''136C. After a candidate is elected in accordance with sub-section 136 (5) or
(6) in a House of Representatives election, the Electoral Commission may, for
the purpose of obtaining information, give the Divisional Returning Officer
who conducted the scrutiny directions for the examination of the second and
later preferences of candidates and for the distribution of those preferences
in a manner specified in the directions, and the Divisional Returning Officer
shall comply with those directions.''.