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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2283 ..

MR WOOD (continuing):

(31) For the purposes of deciding the question that the office of the staff director be declared vacant, 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 words "yes" or "no" 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) the staff director shall not be a returning officer but shall be entitled to scrutinise the counting of votes;

(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 word "yes" or the word "no" on the ballot paper distributed to him;

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