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Polling places for certain Districts.

47. The Polling places for the following Districts

THE TOWN OF DUNEDIN.

THE DUNEDIN COUNTRY DISTRICT:

Shall be at, some convenient place or places in the Town of Dunedin to be specified by the Returning Officer, and if additional Polling places be found necessary then at such places within the above-named Districts as the Governor shall from time to time by Notice in the Government Gazette direct and appoint.

Returning Officers.

48. The Returning Officer for the following Districts

THE TOWN OF DUNEDIN,

THE DUNEDIN COUNTRY DISTRICT.

Shall be the Resident Magistrate for the time being acting for the Town of Dunedin or such other person or persons as the Governor shall from time to time appoint in that behalf.

Writs for Election of Members.

49. The Writs for the Election of Members to serve in the said Council, for the said several Districts, shall be issued by the Governor under his hand, and shall be directed to the Returning Officer for the District, and shall state the number of days not exceeding ninety within which such Writs shall be made returnable to the said Governor.

Days for Nomination and Election how fixed.

50. The Returning Officer for such District shall endorse on the Writ the day on which he may have received it, and shall fix the day of Nomination, and also the day on which the voting, if necessary shall take place, and shall give not less than Fourteen days Public Notice thereof respectively.

Returning Officer to preside at Nomination.

51. On the day of Nomination so fixed as aforesaid, the Returning Officer shall preside at a Meeting to be holden at noon at the chief Polling place for the District, and shall declare the purpose for which such Meeting is held: And if at such Meeting there be no more Candidates proposed than the number of Members to be returned, the Returning Officer shall declare such Candidate or Candidates to be duly Elected and make his return accordingly.

In case of a Contest.

52. In the event of their being more Candidates than the number to be Elected, the Returning Officer shall call for a show of hands separately in favour of each Candidate, and after such show of hands shall declare the person or persons on whom the Election has fallen, and shall return the same accordingly unless a Poll be demanded by some one of the Candidates, or by not less than six Electors on his behalf.

In case a Poll be demanded.

53. On such demand as aforesaid being made for a Poll, the Polling shall be taken on the day so to be fixed as aforesaid, the voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock of the said day and to close at four of the clock in the afternoon of the same day.

The Polling.

54. The Polling shall take place before the Returning Officer or his Deputy, and the voting shall be conducted in the manner following that is to say,

Mode of Voting.

55. Every Elector for the District may vote for any number of persons not exceeding the number of persons then to be chosen by delivering to the Returning Officer or his Deputy, a Voting Paper containing the Christian Names and Surnames of the persons for whom he votes, together with their place of abode and description, and signed with the name of the Elector so voting, and setting forth his own place of abode and description.

What enquiry may be made.

56. No enquiry shall be permitted at any such Election as to the right of any person to vote except only as follows: that is to say, the Returning Officer or his Deputy shall if required by any two Electors for the District, put to any voter at the time of his delivering in of his voting paper, and not afterwards the following questions and no others:

1. Are you the person whose Name is signed as (A.B.) to the voting paper now delivered in by you?

2. Are you the person whose name appears as (A.B.) on the Electoral Roll now in force for the District of (...)?

3. Have you already voted at the present Election?

And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the same, the first two affirmatively, and the last negatively.

State of the Poll to be declared.

57. As soon as conveniently may be...