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ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 146J

146J .         Re-count, when may be conducted etc.

        (1)         At any time before the declaration of the result of the election the returning officer may, if he thinks fit, on the written request of any candidate setting forth the reasons for the request, or of his own motion, re-count the votes on the ballot papers from any district or portion of a district, or on the ballot papers contained in any parcel or on the ballot papers of any particular class.

        (2)         In conducting the re-count the returning officer shall have the same powers as if the re-count were the scrutiny, and may reverse any decision in relation to the scrutiny as to the allowance or admission or disallowance or rejection of any ballot paper.

        (3)         Section 146I(3) to (5) apply in relation to the re-count.

        [Section 146J inserted: No. 40 of 1987 s. 73; amended: No. 43 of 1996 s. 22.]

        [Heading amended: No. 14 of 2016 s. 28(6).]



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