New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES REGULATION 2015 - REG 36

36 Receipt of ballot papers

(1) The returning officer must reject (without opening it) any outer envelope purporting to contain a ballot paper or ballot papers if the envelope is not received by the returning officer before the close of the poll or is received unsealed.

(2) The returning officer must examine the name on the back of each remaining outer envelope and, without opening the outer envelope:

(a) must provisionally accept the outer envelope and draw a line through the name on the final roll for the poll that corresponds to the name on the back of the outer envelope, if satisfied that a person of that name is included in the roll, or

(b) must reject the outer envelope, if not so satisfied or if a name, address or signature does not appear on the back of the outer envelope.

(3) The returning officer may reject (without opening it) any outer envelope if, after making such inquiries as the returning officer thinks fit, it appears to the returning officer that the signature on the back of the outer envelope is not the signature of the person whose name and address appear on the back of the outer envelope.