Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1989 No. 12 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS REGULATIONS - REG 91

91. (1) Not later than 21 days after the closing day of a ballot, the person
conducting the ballot shall prepare, date and sign a certificate showing, in
relation to the ballot:

   (a)  the total number of persons on the roll of voters;

   (b)  the total number of envelopes containing ballot papers posted, in
        accordance with regulation 85, to persons entitled to vote at the
        ballot, being envelopes that were not received by those persons in the
        ordinary course of the post and were returned to the person conducting
        the ballot;

   (c)  the total number of ballot papers received by him or her before the
        closing day of the ballot;

   (d)  the total number of votes in favour of the question set out on the
        ballot paper;

   (e)  the total number of votes not in favour of the question set out on the
        ballot paper; and

   (f)  the total number of informal ballot papers.

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply in relation to a ballot that was required
to be conducted under subsection 243 (2) of the Act, where the person
conducting the ballot was not, by virtue of subsection 243 (4) of the Act,
required to count the votes in that ballot.

(3) Immediately after signing a certificate referred to in subregulation (1)
in relation to a ballot, the person conducting the ballot shall:

   (a)  forward a copy of the certificate to each of the organisations
        concerned in the proposed amalgamation for the purposes of which the
        ballot was conducted; and

   (b)  forward the certificate to the Industrial Registrar.

(4) The date shown on a certificate referred to in subregulation (1) in
relation to a ballot shall, for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations,
be deemed to be the date of the declaration of the result of the ballot.