Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts The returning officer
shall 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 shall
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 him or by deputy or assistant
returning officers or presiding officers;
(d) seal
up, endorse, and transmit to the Electoral Commissioner the marked rolls used
at the election and all declarations in the prescribed form, excluding
declarations relating to early votes, absent votes and provisional votes cast
under section 119(4a), 122(2), or 122A, received by himself and the presiding
officers;
(e) the
Electoral Commissioner shall forthwith give or send to the returning officer a
receipt under his hand for the said packets.
[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.]