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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2276 ..
MR WOOD (continuing):
(30) For the purposes of an election, a ballot shall be conducted as follows:
(a) the chairperson shall ensure that paper of a distinctive colour or type or marked in a distinctive manner, reasonably uniform in size and not bearing the name of a candidate is available in sufficient quantity for use as ballot papers;
(b) subject to paragraph (c), the chairperson shall appoint 1 or more persons present at the meeting, being union officials or financial union members, to be returning officers for the purposes of the ballot;
(c) a candidate shall not be a returning officer;
(d) each financial union member present at the meeting shall be entitled to 1 vote;
(e) the returning officers shall distribute the ballot papers to the financial union members present taking care to ensure that each person receives no more than 1 ballot paper;
(f) a person shall remain in the presence of the chairperson or a returning officer while he or she completes his or her ballot paper;
(g) a person may complete his or her ballot paper in the place where he or she was sitting or standing when he or she received his or her ballot paper;
(h) the chairperson shall afford the persons voting a reasonable period of time to complete their ballot papers and, if so requested by a person voting, shall make available writing materials to enable the person to complete his or her ballot;
(j) if a person completing a ballot paper spoils his or her paper, he or she shall, on surrendering the paper to the chairperson, be issued with a fresh ballot paper and the chairperson shall cancel the surrendered ballot paper;
(k) a person voting shall complete his or her ballot paper by writing the name of 1 of the candidates on the ballot paper distributed to him or her;
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