STATUTORY RULES.
1904. No. 10.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Department of Home Affairs,
Melbourne, 22nd March, 1904.
NOTIFICATION OF A PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902.
PURSUANT to the Rules Publication Act 1903, notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General, by and with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, has been pleased to make the following Regulation, and to direct that it come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation. Copies of the Regulation can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Melbourne.
JOHN FORREST,
Minister of State for Home Affairs.
REGULATION.
Ballot Box for Postal Votes.
8. The Returning Officer for each Division shall keep a Ballot Box marked with the name of the Division, and the words “Postal Ballot Box,” and shall place and keep therein until the scrutiny, all envelopes containing Postal Votes received up to the close of the Poll, and at the scrutiny the Ballot Box shall be opened and the envelopes containing Postal Votes, and the Postal Votes therein, shall be dealt with as directed by Section 119 of the Act.
By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.
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