Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts The returning officer
must also, as soon as practicable after the day of polling at any election
—
(a)
enclose —
(i)
in a packet or packets, as the case may require, all the
used ballot papers; and
(ii)
in another packet or other packets, as the case may
require, all books, communications from officers, or other papers or documents
used or received at or in connection with the election, that are in his
possession (with the exception of the signed rolls);
(b) seal
up the said several packets and endorse the same with a description and the
number of the contents thereof respectively, and the date of the polling, and,
in the case of an election for a district, the name of the district, and must
sign the endorsement, and forthwith forward the said packets to the Electoral
Commissioner;
(c) seal
up, endorse, and transmit in a similar manner to the Electoral Commissioner a
packet or packets, as the case may require, containing all ballot papers
printed for the said election and not used by an officer;
(d) seal
up, endorse, and transmit to the Electoral Commissioner all declarations in
the prescribed form, excluding declarations relating to postal votes, absent
votes and provisional votes cast under Division 3A Subdivision 3, received by
the Electoral Commissioner and the presiding officers;
(e) the
Electoral Commissioner must immediately give or send to the returning officer
a receipt for the packets, declarations and the printed rolls or electronic
roll.
[Section 151 amended: No. 44 of 1911 s. 43; No. 58
of 1951 s. 19; No. 68 of 1964 s. 29; No. 40 of 1987 s. 74 and 84; No. 79 of
1987 s. 70; No. 36 of 2000 s. 48(1); No. 35 of 2012 s. 23; No. 20 of 2021
s. 79; No. 30 of 2023 s. 102.]