Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2004 - SECT 98

    (1)     As soon as practicable after the close of voting for an election, the officer in charge of a scrutiny centre must:

        (a)     open the ballot boxes under the officer's control; and

        (b)     set aside all informal ballot papers, count them and place them in a parcel; and

        (c)     arrange all formal ballot papers under the names of each candidate for whom the first preference vote on the ballot papers was cast; and

        (d)     count the first preference votes given for each candidate on formal ballot papers; and

        (e)     make and sign a statement stating the number of:

            (i)     votes cast as first preference votes for each candidate; and

            (ii)     informal votes; and

        (f)     place all formal ballot papers mentioned in paragraph (c) in separate parcels according to the candidate for whom the first preference vote was cast; and

        (g)     seal the parcels mentioned in paragraphs (b) and (f) and endorse on each parcel a statement of its contents; and

        (h)     send all the parcels and the statement to the Commission or the authorised officer directed by the Commission.

    (2)     A candidate's scrutineer may sign any of the following:

        (a)     the statement mentioned in subsection (1)(e);

        (b)     a sealed parcel mentioned in subsection (1)(g).