Victorian Numbered Regulations

LIQUOR CONTROL REFORM REGULATIONS 2009 (SR NO 134 OF 2009) - REG 54

r. 54

    (1)     As soon as practicable after the close of voting, the election manager must carry out the following activities before any scrutineers who may be present and any election officials and no other person—

        (a)     open the postal ballot receptacle and remove its contents;

        (b)     make up into separate parcels—

              (i)     the record or records kept of persons who have returned a declaration envelope;

              (ii)     the spoilt ballot papers and declaration envelopes;

              (iii)     the unsigned declaration envelopes;

              (iv)     the declaration envelopes disallowed under regulation 48;

              (v)     the unused declaration envelopes;

              (vi)     the unused ballot papers;

        (c)     remove the declaration flaps from the declaration envelopes that have not been disallowed;

        (d)     place the removed declaration flaps in a secure receptacle or location;

        (e)     after the declaration flaps have been removed and placed in a secure receptacle or location, open the signed declaration envelopes and take out the ballot papers;

        (f)     make up the signed declaration envelopes into a separate parcel;

        (g)     ascertain the number of votes in favour of the proposal, the number of votes against the proposal and the number of informal votes;

        (h)     put the formal and informal ballot papers into separate parcels;

              (i)     prepare and sign a certificate which may be signed by any of the scrutineers specifying the number of—

              (i)     votes received in favour of the proposal and votes against the proposal;

              (ii)     ballot papers set aside as informal;

        (j)     make a statement on the outside of each parcel containing—

              (i)     a description of its contents;

              (ii)     the name of the licensing poll;

              (iii)     the name of the counting place;

              (iv)     the date of the count;

        (k)     enclose and properly fasten each parcel and sign the statement made under paragraph (j) and permit any scrutineer present to sign the statement.

    (2)     As far as is practicable, the election manager must ensure that a ballot paper is removed from a signed declaration envelope in a way that prevents any person from seeing how an elector voted.

    (3)     If a declaration envelope contains—

        (a)     more than one ballot paper for the same licensing poll; or

        (b)     ballot papers for more than one licensing poll—

the election manager must disallow all the ballot papers from that declaration envelope and mark them in a manner that indicates why they have been disallowed.